Estimating people

This task is about using a way of estimating that you have discussed with your teacher.
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Ali wants a quick estimate of the number of people in a crowd. 
Make an estimate of about how many people there are and explain how you did it in the box. 

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a)  There was a crowd of 8,682 people and 6,824 went away. 
The number of people left is about .
This is because ...

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Have a group discussion with your teacher on your ways of estimating for this problem. 
 
Make estimates for each of these problems and explain how you made your estimate.

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b)  There were 5,364 people and 2,187 went away. 
There were now about left.
This is because ...

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c)  There were 7,281 people and 4,863 went away. 
There were now about left.
This is because ... 

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d)  There were 54,897 people and 39,715 went away. 
There were now about left.
This is because ...
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