Rounding with Multiplication and Word Problems

When you see the word ABOUT, NEAREST, CLOSEST, or APPROXIMATELY in math, you know to . . . ?

• add

• subtract

• round

• guess

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

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