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Your friend Iggy tells you that the product of 80 and 70 will have four zeroes. Explain to Iggy why his estimation is incorrect, and how to fix it.

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4 zeroes basically means
10^4

$80=2^3\cdot 10$ and $70=7\cdot10$

there will be $10^2$ when you take the product not $10^4$

hence it will have 2 zeroes not 4

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