Rounding Word Problems

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

There are 456,123 fourth graders in Georgia. There are 256,876 third graders. Which is the best estimate of the total number of third and fourth graders in Georgia?

• 800,000

• 600,000

• 1,000,000

• 368,000

A bag of oranges costs $7.87. Five friends want to share the bag. Approximately how much will each friend pay?

• $1.54

• $1.57

• $1.58

• $1.56

There are 80 third grade students this year. The number of third graders was rounded to the nearest ten. What is the exact number of third graders this year?

• 74

• 71

• 78

• 85

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

There are 254 counties in Texas.  What is that number rounded to the nearest ten?  What is that number rounded to the nearest hundred?

• 250, 300

• 200, 300

• 300, 300

• 240, 300