There are 250 toothpicks. Creating a small pyramid takes 3 tooth picks, you can create 83 small pyramids with those 250 toothpicks with 1 toothpick left over.
Making an estimation of how many levels you will make with all the toothpicks and Writing down an answer that is too high and too low, Too high: 40 levels, Too low: 10 levels. Defend and justify your thinking and estimations using 3 complete sentences and show all of your mathematical thinkings
I believe that creating 40 levels is too high of an estimation because with each level requiring 1 more toothpick than the previous level, the number of toothpicks needed exponentially increases. Therefore, it is unlikely that 40 levels can be created with just 250 toothpicks.
On the other hand, estimating 10 levels is too low because with 83 small pyramids created using 250 toothpicks, there must be more levels than just 10. Since each small pyramid has 3 toothpicks and the total number of toothpicks is 250, it is clear that more than 10 levels can be constructed.
Based on the information given, it is most likely that the actual number of levels that can be created with 250 toothpicks is closer to the higher estimation of 40 levels. Therefore, the most accurate estimation is somewhere between 10 and 40 levels.