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Estimate the number of gas stations in the United States, then tell me how you'd verify it with data.

The classic market-sizing question with Palantir's twist: the estimate is the warm-up, and the scored move is the verification plan. Two independent decompositions, a cross-check, and the datasets that settle it.

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