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Estimate to solve word problems. A farmer estimates that he will harvest 938 bushels of wheat. The weather is perfect during the growing season, so he harvests 721 more bushels of wheat than expected. About how many bushels of wheat does the farmer harvest? SweetyPie Baking Company had 716 eggs. Then employees used 624 eggs to make peach cobbler. About how many eggs are left? An education company has a total of 7,245 employees. If there are 1,076 part-time employees, about how many full-time employees work for the company? Blithedale Lake was originally blue because it only had 61,358 algae plants. Then towns and farms cropped up by the lake. This caused 87,867 more algae plants to grow, which turned the lake green. About how many algae plants are now in Blithedale Lake? A company recently gave cell phones to its workers. So far, they have used 92,384 minutes. If they have used 73,271 minutes on personal calls, about how many minutes have the workers used on business calls? A colony of penguins at the zoo ate 644 fish during their morning feeding. After a few hours of swimming, they ate 491 fish during their afternoon feeding. In total, about how many fish did the penguins eat? Choose the better estimate. A recycling centre pays people one dollar for every pound of recycling they drop off. Since its opening, the centre has paid people $12,278 for recycled paper and $47,102 for other recycled materials. In all, about how much money has the centre paid out? Last Friday, a music school held a punk concert and a heavy metal concert at the same time. A total of 9,819 people attended the concerts. If 4,116 people were at the punk concert, about how many people were at the heavy metal concert? The Blithedale Tigers sold 7,571 tickets in the first half of last season and 8,307 in the second half. About how many tickets did they sell last season? Manola took her energetic puppy Buddy on a walk. During the walk, Buddy disturbed a total of 814 insects. First, Buddy stepped in a large anthill and caused 242 angry ants to crawl out. Then, Buddy upset a hornet nest. About how many hornets did Buddy disturb? Last year, the Oakdale Apple Farm harvested 2,777 green apples out of a total of 8,862 apples, the rest of which were red. About how many red apples did the farm harvest last year? A hydroelectric plant uses water to create electricity. Before water enters the plant, it passes

through two filters. Engineers found a total of 434 pieces of litter in the filters. There were 224 pieces of litter in the first filter. About how many pieces of litter were in the second filter? Tenesha's family moved from the Seychelles to Japan, so they had convert their money into Japanese yen. Their chequing account now has 46,569 yen and their savings account now has 73,200 yen. About how many yen do they have? Violet bought some tins and decided to fill them with brownies to give to her friends. Violet baked 886 brownies. She put 6 brownies in each tin and made sure to fill as many tins as she could. About how many tins was Violet able to fill with brownies? The tennis team needs to order 9,384 tennis balls for a tournament. If there are 6 balls in each can, about how many cans should the team order?