Question

Estimate the following products by rounding off each number to the nearest hundred:
$$509 \times 179$$

Answer 1

Given

$$509 \times 179$$

Estimated value to the nearest hundreds of $$509 = 500$$

Estimated value to the nearest hundreds of $$179 = 200$$

$$\therefore$$ required estimation $$= (500 \times 200) = 100000$$