A rope is rated to hold 21 2/5 pounds before it breaks.Estimate by rounding to the nearest pound how many 2 5/8 pound weights the rope will hold ?

A. 2 32/39
B. 3/10
C.10 5/24
D. 3 1/3

1 answer

None are rounded to the nearest pound.

However, unless there are typos, the closest answer would be C, since I estimate 21/3 = 7.