Overestimate
What Overestimate means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
An estimated value greater than the true value.
An estimate greater than the true value.
Topics that use Overestimate
- Graphs (AQA GCSE)
- Number - Measures and accuracy (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Area under a graph as an accumulated total
- Asymptote
- Asymptotes
- Asymptotes and domain restrictions
- average rate of change
- calculating with bounds
- Chord
- Circle equation centred at the origin
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