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Suppose you have a large coffee can full of pennies. How can you estimate how much money that can contains without counting all the coins?

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if you know how much a penny weighs then you can weigh any amount of pennies and take that weight and divide by the weight of one penny, to get how many there are without counting all the coins.
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