A food pantry needs 1,021 cans of tomatoes. A local school collected donations and gave the food pantry 689 cans of tomatoes. The food pantry will need to buy the rest. If they can buy the cans for $0.95 each, approximately how much money will they spend? (1 point)

Question

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Answer 1

To find out how many cans of tomatoes the food pantry still needs to buy, we start by subtracting the number of cans collected from the total number of cans needed:

\[ 1,021 , \text{cans} - 689 , \text{cans} = 332 , \text{cans} \]

Next, we calculate the cost of buying 332 cans at $0.95 per can:

\[ 332 , \text{cans} \times 0.95 , \text{dollars/can} = 315.4 , \text{dollars} \]

Since we need to find the approximate amount of money they will spend, we round $315.4 to the nearest hundred. Among the provided options, $300 is the closest.

Thus, the answer is:

\[ \boxed{300} \]