Real Life Applications of Rounding Off up to 100,000

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5 questions from this lesson’s quiz. Start the lesson to answer them and see the right answers.

1. 1. In which situation is a rounded number MORE appropriate than an exact number?

   • A. Entering the PIN to use a mobile money account
   • B. Reporting the total number of trees planted in a region in a newspaper
   • C. Measuring a patient's prescription dose at a hospital
   • D. Recording the final score of a football match

2. 2. A traffic census outside a market counts 63,485 vehicles in a month. Round this number to the nearest thousand.

   Type your answer (in vehicles) in the lesson.

3. 3. A sub-county registers 12,870 learners who need desks. Round this number to the nearest thousand to place an order for desks.

   Type your answer (in desks) in the lesson.

4. 4. A hospital orders fewer vaccine doses than the number of children who need them because it rounded the figure down. What problem is most likely to happen?

   • A. A surplus, because there will be extra doses
   • B. A deficit, because some children will miss out
   • C. An exact count, because rounding removes errors
   • D. No problem, because rounding is always correct

5. 5. What is the word for a shortage that occurs when the amount needed is greater than the amount supplied?

   Type your answer in the lesson.

More in Whole Numbers

• ▸Rearranging Digits up to 100,000
• ▸Comparing and Ordering Numbers up to 100,000
• ▸Rounding Off Numbers to the Nearest Ten and Hundred
• ▸Rounding Off Numbers to the Nearest Thousand
• ▸Concept of Squares of Whole Numbers
• ▸Calculating Squares of Numbers up to 50
• ▸Calculating Squares of Whole Numbers up to 100
• ▸Concept of Square Roots of Numbers

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