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A biology class takes a field trip to a nearby... field, and collects data on the biodiversity (the number of different plant and animal species) in their local ecosystem, Each student randomly selects one square meter of ground, and counts all the different species of plants, animals, bugs, mold etc that are within that square meter, as well as the total number of organisms. Student A finds 27 unique species in her square meter, and decides to use Fermi Estimation to speed up the rest of her data collection. If she counts 23 grass plants in 100 square centimeters, about how many grasses are there in her entire square meter? [Assume the grass is evenly distributed]

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i believe it would be 230 because there is 100 centimeters in 1 meter and 23 times 100 is 230
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