A carnival has 9 rides. Each ride can carry 7,200 people each day. The carnival owner says that 50,000 people can ride each day. Is this reasonable? Show your work.
7,200 x 9 =
7,000 x 9 = 63,000
200 x 9 = 1,800
63,000 + 1,800 = 64,800 people
Not reasonable.
A chocolate chake has 2285 calories. A carton of ice cream has 2465 calories. About how many calories are in both of these together?
About 4800 calories are in these together.
Find the two estimates for this problem.
Jackie 4 classes to take. Each class has 26 students. Jackie wants to make sure she has enough donuts to share with her classmates. She wants to order 100 donuts. Will this be enough?
No because 26 rounds to 30 and 4 times 30 equals 120 so she will need at least 120 donuts.
6,545 + 3,007
Round to the nearest thousand and add
7,000 + 3,000 = 10,000
6 x 4 ones =
6 x 4 tens =
6 x 4 hundreds =
6 x 4 thousands =
24 ones
240 tens
2,400 hundreds
24,000 thousands
Stacey and Ryan picked out 5,400 raisins from their trail mix. They put the same amount of raisins in six containers. How many raisins were in one container?
5,400 divided by 6 = 900 raisins in each container
Round to the nearest thousand and subtract
7,478 - 6,322
7,000- 6,000 = 1,000
The storage closet has 5,000 boxes. Each box weighs 6 pounds. What is the weight of all the boxes?
5 x 6 =
5 x 60 =
5 x 600 =
5 x 6,000 =
300
3,000
30,000
Pounds
The local fair had 42,000 people attend the last seven days. If the same number of people attended each day, how many people attended the first day? What if it was 4,200 people?
42,000 divided by 7 = 6,000 people
4,200 divided by 7 = 600 people
2,400 divided by 8
24 divided by 8 = 3
2,400 divided by 8 = 300
32 ones divided by 4 =
32 tens divided by 4 =
32 hundreds divided by 4 =
32 thousands divided by 4 =
8
80
800
8,000
Maddie has 480 plushies. She gives the same number of plushies to her sister and three friends. How many plushies does each person get?
480 divided by 4 friends is 120 plushies
Ms. Rangel is planting seeds in her garden. She is planting tomatoes, carrots, sunflowers, and corn. She will plant five rows of each type of seed and then plant twenty seeds in each row. How many seeds will Ms. Rangel plant?
4 x 5 x 20 =
4 x 20= 80
80 x 5=
400 Seeds all together.
369 divided by 9 =
369 = 360 +9
360 divided by 9 = 40
9 divided by 9 = 1
40+1 = 41