Rounding to the nearest 1,000

Difficulty Standard · Set 304gff

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Round 53781 to the nearest thousand.
2
Round 27287 to the nearest thousand.
3
Round 38907 to the nearest thousand.
4
Round 55882 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 82849 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 24293 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 43133 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 61057 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 28221 to the nearest thousand.
10
Round 52818 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 21860 to the nearest thousand.
12
Round 12778 to the nearest thousand.
13
Round 23583 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 41379 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 38153 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 30096 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 61947 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 54816 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 14121 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 19109 to the nearest thousand.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 10,318 to 99,764.
53% of them round down.
47% of them round up.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 53% of the problems: the number of thousands was written instead of the rounded number itself.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 240 different ones, 100% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 4 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.