A local taqueria sold 11,321 carne asada tacos, 13,132 chicken tacos, and 8,982 carnitas tacos last year. If each taco was sold for $3.89, which value best estimates their total earnings from tacos?

Question

A local taqueria sold 11,321 carne asada tacos, 13,132 chicken tacos, and 8,982 carnitas tacos last year. If each taco was sold for $3.89, which value best estimates their total earnings from tacos?
Responses
$90,000
$130,000
$160,000
$33,000

GPT-4o mini · Accepted Answer

To estimate the total earnings from the tacos, we first calculate the total number of tacos sold:

Carne asada tacos: 11,321
Chicken tacos: 13,132
Carnitas tacos: 8,982

Total tacos sold = 11,321 + 13,132 + 8,982 = 33,435 tacos

Next, we multiply the total number of tacos by the price per taco:

Total earnings = Total tacos sold × Price per taco Total earnings = 33,435 × 3.89

To simplify this calculation, we can estimate by rounding the price to $4 for a quicker computation:

Total earnings ≈ 33,435 × 4 = 133,740

Now we can compare this estimate to the answer choices provided:

$90,000
$130,000
$160,000
$33,000

The closest estimate to our calculation of approximately $133,740 is $130,000.