Thanks
to everyone for sending in their guesstimates! We
have a 3-way tie for the closest guess of 70,000. The winners
are Melanie
Hughey of St. Therese Catholic School in Seattle, WA, Cathy
Wansart, and Alexandra!
-
70,000 (Hughey) My estimate based on the information you have
provided is that we are sending approximately 70,000 butterflies
to Mexico for the winter! I hope my estimation is not too
far off the charts!
- 70,000
(Cathy Wansart)
- 70,000 (Alexandra)
-
69,000 (Riddle) There are 69,000 symbolic monarchs on there way
to Mexico.
- 69,000
(Pew)
- 69,000
(Cole)
- 69,000
(Brown) Thanks!
- 68,545
(Black) 68,545 butterflies would be our calculated guess.
- 68,000
(Yoder)
- 68,000
(Regina)
- 68,000
(Jessica)
- 68,000
(Jeffrey)
- 67,998
(McConnell)
- 67,946
(Gabriel)
- 67,800
(Brooke) I think there were 67,800 butterflies on board!
- 67,792
(Ryan)
- 67,785
(Sasha)
- 67,735
(Tracey)
- 67,700
(Bethune) Our class guess is 67,700 butterflies.
- 67,690
(Jade)
- 67,680
(Snyder)
- 67,670
(Broecher-Pfeifer) Our class guess is that 67,670 butterflies
- 67,668
(McLeod) Our guess is 67,668
- 67,667
(Smith) We think it's 67,666.663 rounded to the nearest unit!
- 67,667
(Picado)
- 67,667
(Molenar)
- 67,667
(Maryville) Sesenta y siete mil, seiscientos sesenta y siete monarchas
- 67,667
(Marley)
- 67,667
(Hesler) 406 times 166.667 butterflies per pound would equal about
67,667 butterflies all together.
- 67,667
(Ford)
- 67,667
(Eileen)
- 67,667
(Burak-Gresmer)
- 67,666
(Elliott)
- 67,666
(Liam)
- 67,660
(Rory) With the information given, we estimate that there were
67,660 symbolic butterflies sent in 2007. WOW!
- 67,656
(Hill)
- 67,555
(Abbigail)
- 67,554
(Murphy) We hope we are close!!
- 67,553
(Brenda)
- 67,500
(Pollock)
- 67,500
(Friedler) We did a LOT of math to figure out the answer to this
problem!! We multiplied 18 by 22 1/2 to get the grand total.
- 67,500
(Burns)
- 67,500
(Banuelos)
- 67,500
(Amber)
- 67,500
(Abbey)
- 67,250
(Bradley)
- 67,250
(Amanda)
- 66,000
(Alex)
- 65,489
(Perry)
- 60,000
(Lee)
- 60,000
(Latka) We have estimated 60,000 butterflies.
- 60,000
(Allocco-Ange)
- 6,765,217
(McDonald)
- 52,159
(Hale)
- 33,050
(Frazier)
- 10,000,591,000
(Sriwong)
- 1,000
(Fournier)
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