Usage of Estimate

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zaarathelab: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 217; Joined: Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:39 pmFollowed by: 1 member; Thanked: 7 times

by zaarathelab » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:40 pm

I read somewhere that the ESTIMATE can be used in two forms -

1) With ANY INFINITIVE : TO BE/TO HAVE
2) with THAT (Zaara estimates that only 1% of the students...blah blah

Experts on many forums have said that ESTIMATE + AT is wrong. However, when I googled it, on https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/estimate, ESTIMATE AT qualifies as correct idiomatic usage.

I saw this problem on GMATPREP:

With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Farenheit, Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with 60 square miles of water though to be frozen from top to bottom.

ESTIMATE AT is in the non-underlined part.

What is the correct usage of ESTIMATE?

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by saketk » Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:06 am

zaarathelab wrote:I read somewhere that the ESTIMATE can be used in two forms -

1) With ANY INFINITIVE : TO BE/TO HAVE
2) with THAT (Zaara estimates that only 1% of the students...blah blah

Experts on many forums have said that ESTIMATE + AT is wrong. However, when I googled it, on https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/estimate, ESTIMATE AT qualifies as correct idiomatic usage.

I saw this problem on GMATPREP:

With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Farenheit, Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with 60 square miles of water though to be frozen from top to bottom.

ESTIMATE AT is in the non-underlined part.

What is the correct usage of ESTIMATE?

'Estimate to be' is considered better than 'estimate at'

You should have underlined the part to be reviewed here.

This is the question --

With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Farenheit, Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with 60 square miles of water though to be frozen from top to bottom."

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