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John has 2,456 pennies in his coin collection. He has the same number of pennies in each of 3 boxes. Estimate to the nearest hundred the number of pennies in each box.

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In order to determine how many pennies John has in each box, we have to divide 2,456 (total number of pennies) by 3 (total number of boxes). This means there are 819 (rounded) pennies in each one of John's boxes.
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