Rounding decimals to a whole number

Difficulty Stretch · Set l9prer

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1
Round 5.828 to the nearest whole number.
2
Round 0.384 to the nearest whole number.
3
Round 8.077 to the nearest whole number.
4
Round 1.932 to the nearest whole number.
5
Round 7.679 to the nearest whole number.
6
Round 6.015 to the nearest whole number.
7
Round 0.213 to the nearest whole number.
8
Round 9.018 to the nearest whole number.
9
Round 8.075 to the nearest whole number.
10
Round 8.832 to the nearest whole number.
11
Round 8.921 to the nearest whole number.
12
Round 8.080 to the nearest whole number.
13
Round 6.374 to the nearest whole number.
14
Round 7.349 to the nearest whole number.
15
Round 9.215 to the nearest whole number.
16
Round 9.105 to the nearest whole number.
17
Round 1.046 to the nearest whole number.
18
Round 5.853 to the nearest whole number.
19
Round 5.675 to the nearest whole number.
20
Round 6.959 to the nearest whole number.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 0.11 to 9.995.
53% of them round up.
48% of them round down.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: a digit too many was kept.
Answers are a decimal.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 232 different ones, 97% — 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 5 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.