Maier - AMDM - Unit 1 - Quiz 1 - Estimation

12 people fit comfortably in a 5 feet by 5 feet area. Use this value to estimate the size of a crowd that is 25 feet deep on both sides of the street along a 3-mile section of a parade route.

• 380,160 people
• 396,000 people

• 792,000 people

• 190,080 people

A shipping container is 15 feet by 12 feet by 8 feet. A box is 5 feet by 2 feet by 4 feet. 18 bushels fit into each box and there are 6 bananas on each bushel. How many bananas are in the shipping container?

• 1,440 bananas

• 648 bananas

• 3,888 bananas

• 8,640 bananas

Dory blinks 2 times every 10 seconds. Assuming she sleeps 6 hours a day, how many times does she blink in 2 years? Be sure to use commas in your answer

• 4,730,400 blinks

• 1,576,800 blinks

• 12,614,400 blinks

• 9,460,800 blinks

From birth to your 25th birthday, how many seconds have you been alive? (Be sure to use commas)

• 788,400,000 seconds

• 13,140,000 seconds

• 32,850,000 seconds

• 59,130,000 seconds

A room is 24 feet by 18 feet by 8 feet. A box of tennis balls is 8 inches by 8 inches by 4 inches. There are 12 tennis balls in each box. How many tennis balls will fit in the room? (remember comma(s))

• 23,328 tennis balls

• 279,936 tennis balls

• 162 tennis balls

• 497,664 tennis balls

A parade route is 1.8 miles long. The crowd is stacked 7 feet deep on both sides. One person is 2.3 square feet. Estimate how many people are at the parade (round your answer to the nearest whole number)

• 28,925 people

• 57,850 people

• 66,528 people

• 133,056 people