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A small shipping crate can hold up to 500 pounds. Kelly needs to ship two machine parts that are 255 pounds and 321 pounds. She wants to estimate to see if she can ship both machine parts in the same crate. Complete the statements.

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Answer: no they don't both fit in one box.

Step-by-step explanation: first off, 200 plus 300 is 500, and both numbers are bigger. Then if you wanted to round it to the nearest 10, you would get 580. 580>500 so yeah. that won't work.