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Question 5 - Estimate the answer - Page 70, 71 - Chapter 3 Class 6 - Number Play (Ganita Prakash)
Last updated at June 18, 2025 by Teachoo
Estimate the answer - Page 70, 71
Class 6 (Ganit Prakash)
Chapter 3 Class 6 - Number Play (Ganita Prakash)
- Numbers can Tell us Things, Supercells,
- Supercells
- Supercells in a grid (Page 58)
- Patterns of Numbers on the Number Line, Playing with Digits
- Playing with Digits
- Pretty Palindromic Patterns
- The Magic Number of Kaprekar
- Clock and Calendar Numbers
- Figure it out - Page 64, 65
- Mental Math
- Playing with Number Patterns, and Collatz Conjecture!
- Simple Estimation
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Estimate the answer - Page 70, 71
- Games and Winning Strategies
- Figure it out - Page 72, 73
Transcript
Question 5 Sheetal is in Grade 6 and says she has spent around 13,000 hours in school till date. Do you agree with her? Why or why not?No, I do not agree with her estimate of 13,000 hours. Method: I would calculate the total hours based on years of schooling. A typical school year has about 200 school days. A school day is about 6 hours long. Hours per year ≈ 200 days × 6 hours/day = 1,200 hours. By Grade 6, Sheetal has completed 5 full grades (1-5).= Estimate: 5 years × 1,200 hours/year = 6,000 hours. Even including kindergarten, the total would likely be under 9,000 hours. 13,000 hours seems too high.
