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A school in Bhopal orders 205 water bottles costing 18 rupees each. Using 205 = 200 + 5 with the distributive property, what is the total cost?

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  • A3,600 rupees
  • B3,700 rupees
  • C4,100 rupees
  • D3,690 rupees

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rupees. Stopping at 3,600 rupees ignores the 5 extra bottles, and 4,100 rupees comes from rounding the price up to 20 rupees a bottle.
Answer: D) 3,690 rupees

Key idea: From counting to whole numbers

Natural numbers (1, 2, 3, …) answer 'how many?' when there is at least one of something. But what if there are none? You need a number for that — and that number is zero. Adding 0 to the natural numbers gives the whole numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, …. Every whole number sits at a fixed point on the number line, and they never run out — for any whole number you pick, there is always a larger one.

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