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Harriet counts 15 big boxes and 12 small boxes of notebooks. Each large box contains 189 notebooks, and each small box contains 79 notebooks. Estimate the total number of notebooks. Is your estimate an overestimate or an underestimate?  Explain why it is better to have an overestimate than an underestimate.
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The estimate of the total number of notebooks is an overestimate because it assumes that all boxes are full and does not take into account any empty space in the boxes.