Estimating and Rounding in Everyday Life Adventures

A bakery made 237 cookies. If they want to round to the nearest ten, how many cookies will they say they made?

• 240

• 200

• 230

• 250

Lily has 145 marbles. She wants to estimate how many she has by rounding to the nearest hundred. What is her estimate?

• 100

• 150

• 120

• 200

A farmer has 482 apples. If he sells 50 apples, how many apples does he have left? Round your answer to the nearest ten.

• 450

• 480

• 400

• 430

A school has 1,256 pencils. If they want to estimate how many boxes of 100 pencils they have, what is the best estimate?

• 13

• 12

• 15

• 14

Tom read 89 pages of a book. If he wants to round this number to the nearest ten to tell his friends, what number will he say?

• 95

• 80

• 85

• 90

A toy store has 375 toys. If they want to estimate how many toys they have in total by rounding to the nearest hundred, what is their estimate?

• 400

• 350

• 500

• 300

Sarah collected 218 stickers. If she wants to round this number to the nearest ten, what number will she use?

• 200

• 220

• 230

• 210

A library has 1,045 books. If they want to estimate how many books they have by rounding to the nearest hundred, what is the best estimate?

• 1,100

• 900

• 1,000

• 1,200

A pizza place made 678 pizzas. If they want to round to the nearest hundred for a report, how many pizzas will they report?

• 750

• 700

• 600

• 800

A zoo has 1,234 visitors in a week. If they want to estimate the number of visitors by rounding to the nearest thousand, what is their estimate?

• 1,000

• 2,000

• 800

• 1,500