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

Question

$500

$350

$400

$300

Answer 1

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

Total cans needed: 1,021 Cans collected: 689

Cans still needed: 1,021 - 689 = 332

Now, to find out how much money they will need to spend to buy the remaining cans, we multiply the number of cans needed by the price per can:

Cost per can: $0.95

Total cost: 332 cans × $0.95 per can = $315.40

Since the question asks for an approximate amount, we can round this to $300, which fits the range provided.

Thus, the answer is $300.