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?

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$300

$350

$500

$400

Answer 1

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

1. Total cans needed: 1,021
2. Cans received from donations: 689

Now, we calculate the remaining cans needed:

\[ \text{Remaining cans} = \text{Total cans needed} - \text{Cans received} = 1,021 - 689 = 332 \]

Next, we calculate the total cost for buying the remaining cans:

\[ \text{Cost per can} = 0.95 \]

\[ \text{Total cost} = \text{Remaining cans} \times \text{Cost per can} = 332 \times 0.95 \]

Calculating the total cost:

\[ 332 \times 0.95 = 315.4 \]

Since the question asks for an approximate amount of money they will spend, rounding $315.4 brings us closer to $300.

Therefore, the final answer is $300.