A coffee factory takes coffee beans and produces cans of ground coffee ready for use. The factory can fill 17 cans in one minute. Priscilla wants to figure out how many cans can be filled in 200,000 minutes. She made this chart and used the pattern to solve the problem.

17 × 2= 34
17 × 20 = 340
17 × 200 = 3,400
17 × 2,000 = 34,000

How many cans of coffee can be filled in 200,000 minutes?

A.
340,000

B.
3,400,000

C.
34,000,000

D.
340,000,000

Question

A coffee factory takes coffee beans and produces cans of ground coffee ready for use. The factory can fill 17 cans in one minute. Priscilla wants to figure out how many cans can be filled in 200,000 minutes. She made this chart and used the pattern to solve the problem. 
 
17 × 2= 34
17 × 20 = 340
17 × 200 = 3,400
17 × 2,000 = 34,000

How many cans of coffee can be filled in 200,000 minutes?
 
 A.
340,000
 
 B.
3,400,000
 
 C.
34,000,000
 
 D.
340,000,000

anonymous · Answer

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mathmale · Answer

Look what happens here, if we append a zero onto the number of minutes:

17 × 20 = 340           becomes
17 × 200 = 3,400                              

Would you, lala, now please append an additional zero to both the 200 and the 3,400?
Type out your result here.