- The Ecology Club brought 6 bundles of junk
mail to the recycling center. Each bundle
weighed 275 pounds. How many pounds
of junk mail did the Ecology Club recycle? - Troop 42 collected 8 bins of cardboard for
recycling. Four of the bins held 325 pounds
of cardboard each. The other 4 bins held
450 pounds of cardboard each. How many
pounds of cardboard did Troop 42 collect? - Six of the families on Pine Road each recycled
at least 8 aluminum cans each week last year. There
are 52 weeks in a year. Altogether, did these families recycle
more or less than 2000 aluminum cans last year? Explain.
Use front-end digits to estimate. Then multiply.
- 504 2. 101 3. 210 4. 323 5. 223
4 3 4 2 3 - 308 7. 410 8. 271 9. 505 10. 192
5 8 7 9 4 - 634 12. 279 13. 844 14. 575 15. 397
6 9 7 8 5
Find the product. Use mental math or paper and pencil.
- 2 304 17. 3 131 18. 2 642
- 5 160 20. 6 702 21. 4 261
- 8 625 23. 7 444 24. 9 368
- Show how you could use the distributive
property to find the product for exercise 16.
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