LESSON 3 ROUNDING LARGE NUMBERS

Cebu City, sometimes known as the “Queen City of the South,” has a land area of 4944 square
kilometers (sq. km). What is its land area to the nearest thousand square kilometers?

LET US DISCOVER
You have learned how to round numbers to the nearest ten or hundreds in the previous grade. You
can round 4944 to the nearest thousand without using a number line.
Here are the steps.

Answer: The land area of Cebu City is about 5000 sq. km.
Here are other examples.
Round off 5389 to the nearest thousand.

Round off 86 215 to the nearest ten thousand.

LET US SUMMARIZE

When rounding numbers to any given place, look at the digit to the right of the rounding place.
You round up when the digit to the right of the rounding place is 5 or more. Round down when the
digit is less than 5.

LET US PRACTICE
GET READY
A. Round off each number to the place of the underlined digit. Tell whether you will round up
or down. The first has been done for you.

1. 4286 down 4000

2. 67 258 ___________________
3. 3476 ___________________
4. 46 803 ___________________
1.
5. 38 409 ___________________
6. 71 305 ___________________
7. 25 067 ___________________
8. 81 937 ___________________
WORK ALONE

A. Round off each number to the indicated place. Write the rounded value on the line.

1. 2178 (thousands) ______________________________

2. 6503 (thousands) ______________________________

3. 42 671 (ten thousands) ______________________________

4. 58 592 (ten thousands) ______________________________

5. 129 340 (ten thousands) ______________________________

6. 371 286 (thousands) ______________________________

7. 215 807 (ten thousands) ______________________________

B. Do what is asked
1. In the three barangays of Sorsogon City, 21 897 families received relief goods. About
how many thousands of families received the relief goods?

2. Eddie always saves money in a bank. For two years, he already saved ₱28,760.00. To the
nearest ten thousands, about how much money has he already saved in the bank?

3. Food Jobs Eatery delivered 35 632 food packs to their customers. About how many
thousands of food packs were delivered to their customers?