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Harriet counts 17 boxes of notebooks. Each box contains 189 notebooks. Estimate how many notebooks there are in total. 2,000, 5,000, 4,000 or 3,547? Is it usually better to overestimate or underestimate.
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Harriet counts 17 boxes of notebooks. Each box contains 189 notebooks. Estimate how many notebooks there are in total. 2,000, 5,000, 4,000 or 3,547?

Is it usually better to overestimate or underestimate.

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4,000

Explanation:

rounding, 17 is 20 and 189 rounding is 200. 20 times 200 is 4,000

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