Rounding Word Problems Area

Canyon the Wonder Dog ate 4,278 newspapers.  Rounded to the nearest thousand, how many newspapers did naughty Canyon eat?

• 4,300

• 5,000

• 4,000

• 400

There are 426 scissors in the stockroom. Sally placed 500 more scissors in the stockroom. Rounded to the nearest hundred, how many scissors are now in the stockroom?

• 1,000

• 800

• 900

• 926

Alice says 553 rounds to 600 and Ralph says 553 rounds to 550.  Who is correct?

• Alice

• Ralph

• Both of them are correct depending on if you are rounding to the nearest 10 or nearest 100.

• Neither

769,000 people visited Stone Mountain last year. The number of visitors was rounded to the nearest thousand. What is the least number of people that may have visited Stone Mountain?

• 768,999

• 769,112

• 768,432

• 768,500

Marsha’s Bakery bakes 678 cupcakes every day. When rounding to the nearest hundreds place, what would be the estimated catch of the week?

• 1,400

• 4,900

• 700

• 3,500

Which number rounds to 250,000 when rounded to the nearest ten thousand, and 254,000 when rounded to the nearest thousand?

• 251,567

• 253,900

• 257,891

• 258,543

Mike worked on the farm storing bales of hay in the barn. The first week he stacked 7,487 bales and 4,874 bales on the second week.If you rounded to the nearest ten about how many bales were stored in the barn?

• 12,361

• 12,000

• 12,360

• 12,450

Keith and Sam both collect marbles. Keith has collected 15,785 and Sam has collected 18,452 marbles. Rounded to the nearest ten thousand about  how many marbles do they own together?

• 34,000

• 30,000

• 34,210

There are 347,426 scissors in the stockroom. Sally placed 237,575 more scissors in the stockroom. Rounded to the nearest hundred thousand how many scissors are now in the stockroom?

• 600,000

• 585,001

• 500,000

• 1,000,000