Your family has planned a trip this summer. The distance from your home to Havertown is 38 miles. Then, your family must travel 948 miles to Murrayville. Use front-end estimation to determine how many miles you will travel on your family trip.

Student Answer: 960
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990

Question

Your family has planned a trip this summer. The distance from your home to Havertown is 38 miles. Then, your family must travel 948 miles to Murrayville. Use front-end estimation to determine how many miles you will travel on your family trip.

 	Student Answer:	 960
 		 970
 		 980
 		 990

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

38 miles is close to 40 

948 is close to 950

Add these two estimates:  40+950 = 990

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

So the estimated total distance is 990. This is an overestimate (since both 40 and 950 are  found by rounding up)