Minecraft Madness

After its release in 2011, 16 million copies of Minecraft were sold by August 2014, making it the best-selling computer game made without the help of a major game company.

In 2014, about 16,000 copies of Minecraft were sold each day. 

About how many games were sold that whole year? Write a multiplication expression, rounding the number of days in a year to the nearest 100. 

Player Kurt J. Mac has traveled the greatest distance in Minecraft. By 2015, he had traveled 2,266,779 blocks. Mac’s feat took 50 months.

To estimate this time in years, a student writes the following equation: 48 ÷ 12 = 4 years.

Is his estimate reasonable? Why or why not? What is the actual answer?

In 2014, Denmark became the first country to be built to scale in Minecraft. The Danish government used map data to build a life-sized model of the country. The project took 4 trillion blocks.

The tallest building in Denmark, Herlev Hospital, is 393.7 feet tall.

Round this number to the nearest 100, then to the nearest 10, and finally to the nearest 1. How does the value of the number change?