We can round off each term to its nearest thousand to make our calculation easy.
28,292 can be rounded off to 28,000. 21,496 can be rounded off to 21,000. Hence, the estimated difference = 28,000 - 21,000 = 7,000.
Question 1(d) Estimate the following using general rule: 28,292 – 21,496
Estimate each of the following using general rule:
(a) 730 + 998 (b) 796 − 314 (c) 12, 904 + 2, 888
(d) 28, 292 − 21, 496
Make ten more such examples of addition, subtraction and estimation of their outcome.