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Grade 5 Word Problems Estimating Rounding A

This document contains 6 word problems involving estimation of numbers of people, families, children, and populations based on given averages and totals. The word problems provide the necessary information to calculate the requested values and select the correct answer from 3 multiple choice options.

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Grade 5 Word Problems Estimating Rounding A

This document contains 6 word problems involving estimation of numbers of people, families, children, and populations based on given averages and totals. The word problems provide the necessary information to calculate the requested values and select the correct answer from 3 multiple choice options.

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Estimation word problems

Grade 5 Word Problems Worksheet

Read and answer each question:

1. There are about 795 houses in this region. The average family size is 6 people.
There are about __________ people living in the region.

a. 4,800 b. 5,000 c. 5,500

2. In a town, there are 1,349 families. If there are on average two children attending
elementary school from each family and each school can accommodate 220
children, the minimum number of elementary schools needed in the region is
__________.

a. 6 b. 9 c. 13

3. In 2017, a survey finds that there are 34 babies born for every 1,000 families in a
city. Among these babies, 20 of them are boys. There are 88,326 families in this
city in 2017 and the total number of girls born in this year is about __________.

a. 1,200 b. 1,500 c. 1,800

4. The population of a city is 67,721 and the neighboring city has a population of
52,103. The difference between two cities is __________.

a. 13,000 b. 14,000 c. 16,000

5. In 2016, the population of a region was 91,274. In 2017, the population was
increased by 6,015. In 2017, the population was about __________.

a. 85,000 b. 97,300 c. 99,800

6. There are 26,358 children living in this town.


Half of the children are boys. There are about
_________ boys living in this town.
a. 12,800 b. 13,000
c. 13,300

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Answers

1. a
2. c
3. a
4. c
5. b
6. b

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