Question

Roby spends $\$$279 on buying furniture and twice of the amount on buying 3 crockery sets. Estimate the cost of one crockery set.

Hint: Round off the inital amount to the nearest hundred.

• A. $ 400
• B. $ 200
• C. $ 100
• D. $ 300

Answer 1

The correct option is B $ 200

279 can be rounded off to 300.

Amount spent on furniture = $\$$300

Amount spent on 3 crockery sets
= 2 x Amount spent on furniture
i.e. $2\times 300=600$.

$\text{Cost of 1 crockery set =}600÷3=200$

Thus, the estimated cost of each crockery set is $\$$200.