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100
44,874 rounded to the nearest hundred
What is 44,900
100

2,392 + 1,567?

3,959

100

4,539

4,000 + 500 + 30 + 9

100

Sam has 30 jelly beans. Tanya has 86 more jelly beans than Sam. How many jelly beans do they have all together?

146 jelly beans

100
Estimate to the nearest thousand: 1234 + 3556
What is 5,000
200
44,874 rounded to the nearest thousand
What is 45,000
200

3,945 - 2,876

1,069

200

12,470

What is 10,000+2,000+400+70

200
Jose runs 168 meters on Monday, 258 meters on Tuesday and some more meters on Wednesday. He ran 600 meters in all three days. How many meters did he run on Wednesday?

174 meters

200
Estimate to the nearest hundred: 12,344 + 12, 231
What is 24, 500
300
44,874 rounded to the nearest ten-thousand
What is 40,000
300

619,165 + 148,421

767,586

300
97,608
What is 90,000+7,000+600+8
300

Edison School District has 5,240 first grade students and 6,432 second grade students. The district has 3,456 more third grade students than first grade students. What is the total number of first through third grade students in the district? *Hint first, second and third

20,368

300
Estimate to the nearest tens: 234,543 + 230,056
What is 464,600
400
44,874 rounded to the nearest ten
What is 44,870
400

45,321 - 34,780 = 

10,541

400
123,371
What is 100,000+20,000+3,000+300+70+1
400

Wyoming has 585,501 people. Colorado has 134,345 more people that Wyoming. Texas has 36,456 more than Colorado. How many people live in Texas?

756,302

400
Estimate to the nearest ten thousands: 123,040 - 110,023
What is 10,000
500
499,999 rounded to the nearest hundred
What is 500,000
500

800,000 - 493,486

306,514

500
2,608,095
What is 2,000,000+600,000+8,000+90+5
500

The school has 45,983 rocks in all. They use 23,543 in the field and 11,453 rocks in the garden. After a truck delivers more rocks, they have 20,000 rocks total at the school. What is the closest estimate for the number of rocks that were delivered?

About 9,000 rocks

500
Estimate to the nearest millions: 5,789,765 - 3,467,432
What is 3,000,000
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