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Keegan and Jeff did some research and found that there are approximately 7,492,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth. Jeff says that it is about 7×10157 \times 10^{15} grains of sand. Keegan says that this is about 7×10187 \times 10^{18} grains of sand. Whose estimate, Jeff's or Keegan's, is more logical? Explain.

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Keegan's estimate is more logical\textbf{logical} because we need to count all the numbers after the first, not just how many 00 we have. Jeff counted only 00 and ended up with a power of 1010 with lesser exponent\textbf{lesser exponent} than Keegan's.

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