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"reasonable estimate" means making a sensible guess or calculation that is based on facts, evidence, or experience. It implies making a thoughtful and well-informed guess or prediction, rather than simply guessing randomly or without considering relevant information.
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And I generally try and give
reasonable estimates of when I can get things done so I don't miss deadlines (and so far so good J).
Nonetheless, economists do their best to make a range of
reasonable estimates for plausible futures and calculate the resulting changes in emissions.
If you measure the latitude of the ice margin at just one point, you can make a
very reasonable estimate of the total extent.
You can make
reasonable estimates about future income — both gross income and net of expenses — to set spending and savings targets.
These can be modified going forward, so just
use reasonable estimates now to get through your first draft at this process.
While I totally understand someone completing it in that time, I feel like ~ 5 hours is a
more reasonable estimate for many people.
Plus, they can probably come to a fairly
reasonable estimate based on Sony's financial reports, because they know software sales, hardware sales, and how many games have sold on their own system.
They then found that you actually got very compatible answers if done
with reasonable estimates of historical forcing and a sensible treatment of OHC.
Finally, with the advice from our partners in the insurance and medical industries, we can
get reasonable estimates of future care and rehabilitation costs, as well as assigning values on pain and suffering.
While official estimates are slightly lower,
most reasonable estimates put California's total unfunded liabilities for state and local pensions at around $ 500 billion.
Such growth seems a good prospect, based not only on the long - term track records of the companies in various TAM portfolios but, more importantly, assuming that the independent appraisals
represent reasonable estimates of future cash flows for existing properties, then future cash flows should be relatively large compared to the current discount market prices for the relevant common stocks.
While official estimates are slightly lower, most
reasonable estimates put California's total unfunded liabilities for state and local pensions at -LSB-...]
But what's great about stocks is that one can sort of drill down into a
fairly reasonable estimate of intrinsic value, which is something that fellow contributor Dave Van Knapp attempted to show via his lesson on stock valuation.
In Part 4 I'll discuss how to
evaluate reasonable estimates for the real rate of return on your investments, since this has significant impact on how much savings you'll end up with given a certain savings rate.
Though there's no way to know for sure that I didn't tweak the assumptions to get an answer I liked, I assure you that these are the
first reasonable estimates that came to me as I was trying to be fair — we are «doing it live» so to speak.
If it does I wonder how many posts it takes before someone tells me 1 % is a
perfectly reasonable estimate for a 20 degC rise even if such as rise has never happened in 600 million years.
As IAMs select technologies on the basis of relative costs, they normally concentrate on reduction measures for
which reasonable estimates of future performance and costs can be made.
There is no single online tool that can do this job as well as an experienced solar designer who does a thorough review of your needs but there are a couple of ways you can get a pretty
reasonable estimate before calling your local solar company:
I could probably ask alomost any group of people to come up with estimates for how long it would take to dig a trench in the sand of certain proportions, and
get reasonable estimates to work with.
When you come up with these figures, you have two choices: you can look at the historical data, as imperfect as they may be, and use them to
make reasonable estimates about asset returns.
If you can accurately estimate your total household income for the year, and separate that into income from wages, contracting, and your wife's business, as well as your expenses for things like state and local income and property taxes, then you can make a
very reasonable estimate about your total tax burden (including the self - employment taxes on your non-wage income) and then determine whether you are having enough tax withheld from your paycheck.
And, for parents seeking to purchase center - based care on their own dime or for government trying to
generate reasonable estimates of the costs of expansion of public programs, what are the going rates?
Shareholders have also seen no progress in the share price over the last two & a half years, which continues to fall well short of
most reasonable estimates of underlying intrinsic value per share.
Application of the new methods has also lead to
more reasonable estimates of all kinds of important quantities from children's rates of achievement, to the duration of the doctoral career at HGSE, to realistic assessments of the positive impact of the GED on entry into the workforce, the duration of the teaching career, and so on.
Other, more sophisticated scenarios were drawn up based on
reasonable estimates of what the future world will be like because of decisions and actions governments will / might make (more info).
Many, but not all of those are likely to be contract - free, so
a reasonable estimate is that somewhere between 85 and 95 per cent of iPhones are sold with a carrier subsidy.
We can, however, make
some reasonable estimates based on general employment trends.