Question

at the school carnival, students played a game where they had to guess the number of quarters in a jar. dan guessed 100. jackson guessed 50, and haley guessed 76. later, a teacher announced that there were 80 quarters in the jar. dan had overestimated, jackson had underestimated, and haley had estimated closest to the actual number of quarters. match each word to its description. this word has a meaning similar to guessed or predicted. this word has a prefix and means \incorrectly guessed too much.\ this word has a prefix and means \incorrectly guessed too little.\ answer bank overestimated estimated underestimated

Explanation:

• For the first description, "estimated" is similar to "guessed" or "predicted".
• For the second description, "overestimated" has the prefix "over - " and means "incorrectly guessed too much".
• For the third description, "underestimated" has the prefix "under - " and means "incorrectly guessed too little".

Answer:

1. estimated
2. overestimated
3. underestimated