Amy's school is made up of 524 students. The principal gave each student 3 pencils. Amy says 1,048 pencils were handed out. Is Amy's answer reasonable? Why or why not?
if it were only 500 students; three pencils each is 1500 pencils
looks like Amy calculated two pencils each
MATHS
To determine whether Amy's answer of 1,048 pencils being handed out is reasonable, we can perform a simple calculation.
First, we need to find the total number of pencils distributed. We can do this by multiplying the number of students by the number of pencils each student received:
524 students * 3 pencils each = 1,572 pencils
Based on this calculation, we can determine that 1,572 pencils were handed out in total, not 1,048 as Amy suggests.
Therefore, Amy's answer of 1,048 pencils is not reasonable because it is below the actual number of pencils distributed.