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4. The robotics club has 329 batteries.
They use 115 to power one robot.
About how many batteries does the
club have left? Round to the nearest
ten and then subtract to estimate.
1. Lucinda lives in a city with a
population of 56,808. Which is
another way to write 56,808?
A Fifty-six thousand, eight hundred
eighty
B 50,000 + 6,000 + 800 + 8
C Five thousand, six hundred
eighty-eight
2. Jerry, Megan, and Charlie were playing
a game. Jerry earned 23,345 points.
Megan earned 23,530 points. Charlie
earned 24,240 points. Which correctly
shows their scores in order from
greatest to least?
A 23,345 23,530 24,240
B About 210
D About 300
A Thousands
C Tens
B Hundreds
D Ones
6. Nick and Jay are comparing the
points they won playing a video
game. Nick has 45,342 points. Jay
has 45,324 points. Which explanation
best tells how to compare the
two numbers?
B 23,530 23,345 24,240
C 24,240 23,345 23,530
D 24,240 23,530 23,345
A Start with the ones. 4 7 2, so Jay
has more points.
3. Haley was rounding 36,450 to the
nearest ten thousand. She drew the
number line below. Which of the
following statements will help Haley
round 36,450 to the nearest ten
thousand?
35,000 36,450
C About 220
5. Cassie and Jimmy are counting votes
in a local election. One candidate
received 4,556 votes. Which place
value has a digit with exactly ten
times the value of another?
D 50,000 + 8,000 + 800 + 8
30,000
A About 200
B Start with the greatest place value
where the digits are not equal,
which is the tens place.
4 tens 7 2 tens, so Nick has
more points.
40,000
A 36,450 is about 36,500.
B 36,450 is closer to 36,000 than
37,000.
C Nick is older, so he has more
points than Jay.
D The digits in each place are all
the same, so they have the same
number of points.
C 36,450 is nearly 40,000.
D 36,450 is about 36,000.
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10. A company made 235 dollhouses.
They sold 45 blue ones. They
sold 56 yellow ones. How many
dollhouses does the company
have left to sell?
7. Terrell picked 15 peaches. Denise
picked 17. Gus picked 13. Terrell says
they picked 45 peaches all together.
First, he grouped and added 13 and
17. Then, he added 15. Which
property of addition did Terrell use?
A 101
A Associative (Grouping) Property
B 134
B Commutative (Order) Property
C 144
C Identity Property
D 190
D Zero Property
11. Yuri has 303 songs on his MP3 player.
He erases 167 songs. Then, he adds
195 new songs. How many songs
does Yuri now have on his MP3 player?
8. An orchard has 224 apple trees and
178 cherry trees. Which estimate
of the total number of trees uses
compatible numbers?
A 136
A 200 + 100 = 300
B 321
B 240 + 150 = 390
C 331
C 200 + 200 = 400
D 341
D 225 + 175 = 400
12. Alexa has 546 buttons in her
collection. She bought 145 more at a
garage sale. How many buttons does
she now have? Use the strip diagram
to help you.
9. Sunny is using the number line below
to show 150 - 70 + 30. What should
she do next?
? buttons
0 10
30
50
70
546
90 110 130 150
A Draw an arrow from 80 to 10.
A 691
B Draw an arrow from 80 to 30.
B 681
C Draw an arrow from 80 to 50.
C 401
D Draw an arrow from 80 to 110.
D 391
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13. Callista buys 3 bags of cereal. Each
bag costs $3. She pays with a $10 bill.
How much change should she get?
16. A pet store has 5 tanks of lizards.
Each tank has 7 lizards. Which is
NOT a way to find how many lizards
the pet store has?
A $1
A 5 × 7
B $7
C $9
B 7 × 5
D $10
C 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5
D 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7
14. Garrett has 487 place-value blocks.
Veruca has 234 place-value blocks.
How many blocks do they have?
17. Erin sold 282 boxes of cookies for a
fundraiser. She delivered 173 boxes.
Which strip diagram and equation
can help Erin find the number of
boxes she still needs to deliver?
A 282 + 173 = ?
?
A 253
282
B 611
173
B 282 - 173 = ?
C 621
282
D 721
173
?
C 455 - 173 = ?
15. Sylvia knows 4 bowls containing
8 almonds each is 32 almonds
all together. What multiplication
fact can help her figure out how
many almonds are in 8 bowls with
4 almonds in each?
455
173
?
D 455 - 282 = ?
455
A 4 × 4 = 16
282
?
B 8 × 4 = 32
C 8 × 8 = 64
18. Ernie has 8 times as many nuts as bolts
in his toolbox. He has 2 bolts. Which
shows how many nuts Ernie has?
D 4 × 40 = 160
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C 8 , 2
B 2 + 8
D 8 - 2
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22. Bonnie’s class collected 579 cans to
be recycled. George’s class collected
256 cans. How many cans did both
classes collect?
19. Paul is helping his dad give out free
pens to promote his business. They
started with 500 pens. There are
78 pens left. How many pens did
they give away?
A 422
C 442
B 432
D 578
A 323
C 825
B 725
D 835
23. Craig used a number line to find
6 × 3. Is he correct? Choose the
best answer.
20. Gavin has been saving money. He has
the coins and bills shown below. How
much money does Gavin have?
3
0
3
3
3
6
3
9
3
12
3
16
19 20
A Yes, 6 equal jumps of 3 is 19.
B No, he should not use a number
line to find 6 × 3.
C No, he should have shown
3 jumps of 6; 3 × 6 = 18.
A $3.07
C $7.79
B $7.43
D $7.88
D No, all of his jumps are not equal.
His 5th jump was 4, not 3;
6 × 3 = 18.
24. The students in Betsy’s music
class are seated in chairs arranged
as shown below. Which number
sentence shows the number of
students in Betsy’s music class?
21. Felicia subtracted 253 from 782.
Her work is shown below. How can
Felicia check her work using inverse
operations?
7 12
A 4 × 4 = 16
78 2
-253
529
B 4 × 5 = 20
C 4 × 6 = 24
A Add 529 to 782
D 5 × 5 = 25
B Add 253 to 782
C Add 253 and 529
D Subtract 529 from 782
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