Emma needs 2 pounds of ground meat to make meat loaf. She has one package with 2.36 pounds of ground meat and another package with 2.09 pounds of ground meat. She uses rounding and finds that both packages are close to 2 pounds. Explain how Emma can choose the package closer to 2 pounds.

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alexak
Emma can see that 2.09 is closer to 2 than 2.36.
So, the package with 2.09 pounds of ground meat is the package closer to 2 pounds.

Hope that helps :-)
She can use the eyeballing method here. Visibly, 2.09 lb is closer to 2 than 2.36.