4 Name Round Numbers Number and Operations in Base Essential Question How can you round numbers? Ten—4.NBT.A.3 MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES MP1, MP2, MP5, MP7
Unlock Unlock the the Problem Problem During May 2008, the Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota welcomed 138,202 • Underline what you are asked to find. visitors. A website reported that about 1 hundred • Circle the information you will use. thousand people visited the park during that month. Was the estimate reasonable?
An estimate tells you about how many or about how much. It is close to an exact amount. You can round a number to find an estimate.
One Way Use a number line.
To round a number to the nearest hundred thousand, find the hundred thousands it is between.
___ < 138,202 < ___
Use a number line to see which hundred thousand 138,202 is closest to.
2. How does knowing where the halfway point is help you find which hundred thousand 138,202 is closest to? Explain.
Chapter 1 23 Another Way Use place value. Mount Rushmore is located 5,725 feet above sea level. About how high is Mount Rushmore above sea level, to the nearest thousand feet?
To round a number to the nearest thousand,
find the thousands it is between.
__ < 5,725 < __
Look at the digit in the place-value position to the right. Math MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES 6 Talk 5,725 Explain the difference in using a model and using place value Think: The digit in the hundreds place is 7. when rounding numbers. So, 5,725 is closer to 6,000 than 5,000.
So, Mount Rushmore is about __ feet
above sea level.
3. What number is halfway between 70,000 and 80,000?
When a number is exactly half way between two rounding numbers, round to 4. What is 75,000 rounded to the nearest ten thousand? Explain. the greater number.
Try This! Round to the place value of the underlined digit.
A 64,999 B 850,000
C 301,587 D 10,832
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1. Suppose 255,113 people live in a city. Is it reasonable to say that
about 300,000 people live in the city? Use the number line to help you solve the problem. Explain.
200,000 250,000 300,000
Round to the place value of the underlined digit.
2. 934,567 3. 641,267 4. 234,890 5. 347,456
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6. DEEPER To the nearest hundred, a factory produced 3,600 jars
of applesauce on Thursday and 4,200 jars of apple juice on Friday. To the nearest thousand, how many jars of apple juice did they produce during the two days?
8. DEEPERA male elephant weighs 6,728 pounds. A female
elephant weighs 5,843 pounds. To the nearest hundred, what is the total weight of the two elephants?
9. SMARTER About 300,000 people attended a festival. For numbers 9a–9e choose Yes or No to show whether each number could be the exact number of people that attended the festival. 9a. 351,213 Yes No 9b. 249,899 Yes No 9c. 252,348 Yes No 9d. 389,001 Yes No 9e. 305,992 Yes No
Data Gathering Some scientists count and measure groups of things. Benchmarks can be used to estimate the size of a group or a population. A benchmark is a known number of things that helps you understand the size or amount of a different number of things.
Use the benchmark to find a reasonable estimate for the number
of coquina shells it would take to fill a jar.
It would take about 5 times the benchmark to fill the jar.
100 + 100 + 100 + 100 + 100 = 500 Benchmark 200; 500; 100 shells or 5,000 The most reasonable estimate for the number of coquina shells it would take to fill the jar is 500 shells. MATHEMATICAL 1 Evaluate Reasonableness Use the benchmark to find PRACTICE
a reasonable estimate. Circle the reasonable estimate.
26 Practice and Homework Name Lesson 1.4 Round Numbers COMMON CORE STANDARD—4.NBT.A.3 Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers. Round to the place value of the underlined digit. 1. 862,840 2. 123,499 3. 552,945
862,840 860,000
less than 5
• Look at the digit to the right. If the digit
to the right is less than 5, the digit in the rounding place stays the same.
10. WRITE Math Jessie says to round 763,400 to the nearest
ten thousand, he will round to 770,000. Is he right? Explain.
Chapter 1 27 Lesson Check (4.NBT.A.3) 1. What is 247,039 rounded to the nearest 2. To the nearest ten thousand, the population thousand? of Vermont was estimated to be about 620,000 in 2008. What might have been the exact population of Vermont in 2008?
Spiral Review (Reviews 3.NF.A.1, 4.NBT.A.2)
3. Write the symbol that makes the following 4. Pittsburgh International Airport had number sentence true? approximately 714,587 passengers in August 2009. Write a number that is greater than 714,587.
