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)

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Responses

$500
$500

$350
$350

$300
$300

$400

Answer 1

To find out how much money the food pantry will spend on the cans of tomatoes, we first need to determine how many cans they still need after receiving the donations.

1. Calculate the number of cans still needed: \[ \text{Total cans needed} = 1,021 \] \[ \text{Cans received} = 689 \] \[ \text{Cans still needed} = 1,021 - 689 = 332 \]

2. Calculate the cost to buy the remaining cans: The cost per can is $0.95. \[ \text{Total cost} = \text{Cans still needed} \times \text{Cost per can} \] \[ \text{Total cost} = 332 \times 0.95 = 315.4 \]

Approximately, the total amount they will spend is $315.40. Since the options provided are whole numbers, we can round this value. The closest answer choice would be $300.

Therefore, the correct response is $300.