WORD PROBLEMS and ROUNDING

Ten's Place

100

Round 21 to the nearest ten

20

200

Round 38 to the nearest ten

40

300

Round 474 to the nearest ten

470

400

Round 1,371 to the nearest ten

1,370

500

Round 9,989 to the nearest ten

9,990

Hundred's Place

100

Round 811 to the nearest hundred

800

200

Round 105 to the nearest hundred

100

300

Round 2,497 to the nearest hundred

2,500

400

Round 999 to the nearest hundred

1,000

500

Round 10,444 to the nearest hundred

10,400

Thousands's Place

100

Round 5,308 to the nearest thousand

5,000

200

Round 101,976 to the nearest thousand

102,000

300

Round 34,999 to the nearest thousand

35,000

400

Round 19,302 to the nearest thousand

19,000

500

Round 1,989,900 to the nearest thousand

1,999,000

Word Problems

100

Sarah makes 6 chocolate chip cookies, 6 snickerdoodle cookies, and 12 peanut butter cookies. How many cookies did Sarah make in all?

24 cookies

200

Billy grows 400 pumpkins. He sells 140 of them. How many pumpkins does Billy have left?

260 Pumpkins

300

Kate spends 2 hours dancing on Monday, 2 hours on Tuesday, 3 hours on Thursday, and 4 hours on Saturday. How many hours does Kate spend dancing altogether?

11 hours 

400

Ms. Jen has three boxes of pencils with 12 pencils in each box. She gives 8 pencils away to students. How many pencils does she have left over?

28 pencils

500

Mary is trying to do 300 pushups. She does 35 pushups on Monday, 45 pushups on Tuesday, 50 pushups on Wednesday, and 105 pushups on Thursday. How many more pushups does Mary need to do?

65 more pushups 

Estimation Word Problems

100

Tina's Beauty Salon charges $37 per haircut. If the salon has 2 visitors that day, ESTIMATE how much money Tina would make.

$40 + $40 = $80

200

Henry the dog buried 33 bones in his yard in the month of June. In July, he dug up 12 of the bones. ESTIMATE how many bones are still buried?

30 bones - 10 bones = 20 bones still buried

300

Ben wanted to buy a TV that cost $343. He has already saved $96. ESTIMATE to the NEAREST TEN how much more money Ben needs to save to buy the TV.

$340 - $100 = $240

400

Julie has 12 socks, 24 shirts, 8 pants, and 7 pairs of shoes. ESTIMATE how many clothing items she has in all.

10 socks + 20 shirts + 10 pants + 10 shoes = 50 clothing items

500

There are 219 vegetables in my garden. 32 of them were eaten by chickens, and 108 of them blew away in the wind. ESTIMATE to the NEAREST TEN how many vegetables do I have left over?

220 veggies - 30 eaten - 100 blow away = 90 vegetables left