Place Value and Rounding

Front

What is place value?

Back

Place value is the value of a digit based on its position in a number. For example, in the number 345, the 3 is in the hundreds place, so it represents 300.

Front

How do you round a number to the nearest hundred?

Back

To round a number to the nearest hundred, look at the digit in the tens place. If it is 5 or more, round up. If it is 4 or less, round down.

Front

Round 6,978 to the hundreds place.

Back

7,000

Front

What place does the digit 4 occupy in the number 450,322?

Back

hundred thousands

Front

Round 53,859 to the nearest thousand.

Back

54,000

Front

Which number has a 9 in the hundred thousands place? 123,456,789 or 768,921,543?

Back

768,921,543

Front

Round 149,754 to the nearest hundred thousand.

Back

100,000

Front

What is the value of the digit 7 in the number 7,482?

Back

700.

Front

What is the difference between rounding up and rounding down?

Back

Rounding up means increasing the number to the next highest value, while rounding down means decreasing it to the next lowest value.

Front

What is the place value of the digit 2 in the number 82,345?

Back

two thousands.