Place Value Unit - Rounding Word Problems

Bryan collected 12,679 box tops. He rounded this number to the nearest thousand. About how many box tops did Bryan collect?

• 12,700

• 13,000

• 3,000

• 12,000

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The Post Office collected 24,091 letters last month. About how many letters did the Post Office collect? Round to the nearest ten thousand to estimate.

• 25,000

• 24,100

• 24,000

• 20,000

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CCSS.3.NBT.A.1

CCSS.4.NBT.A.3

The Buffalo Bills sold 72,604 tickets to the home opener. The team wants to round this number to the nearest hundred. About how many tickets did they sell?

• 70,000

• 73,600

• 72,600

• 73,000

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CCSS.3.NBT.A.1

CCSS.4.NBT.A.3

Round 75,609 to the nearest hundred, thousand, and ten thousand:

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CCSS.3.NBT.A.1

CCSS.4.NBT.A.3

Round 994,790 to the nearest thousand, ten thousand, and hundred thousand:

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CCSS.3.NBT.A.1

CCSS.4.NBT.A.3

The Buffalo Bisons sold a total of 127,011 tickets this season. The newspaper wrote that the team sold about 200,000 tickets. Is this estimate reasonable? Explain.

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The food pantry collected 34,550 donations in 2021. In 2022, the food pantry collected 67,488 donations. About how many more donations did the food pantry collect in 2022? Round each number to the greatest place value to estimate.

The workers at the apple orchard picked 341,718 apples this fall. Last fall, the workers picked 298,141 apples. Round both numbers to the greatest place value. Compare the number of apples picked both years.

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