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44 C HAPTE R 1 I THE WHOLE NUMBERS

Round each number to the indicated place.

27. The University of California, Los Angeles, had 28. In 2008, there were 11,565 Burger King restaurants.
83,659 Alumni Association members in 2009. Round Round this number to the nearest hundred. (Source:
this number to the nearest thousand. (Source: Burger King Holdings, Inc.)
UCLA)

29. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the NBA record for 30. It takes 60,149 days for Neptune to make a complete
points scored, a total of 38,387 over his NBA career. orbit around the Sun. Round this number to the
Round this number to the nearest thousand. (Source: nearest hundred. (Source: National Space Science
National Basketball Association) Data Center)

31. In 2008, the most valuable brand in the world was 32. According to the 2009 Population Clock, the
Wal-Mart, having just overtaken the longtime population of the United States was 305,747,409 in
leader, Coca-Cola.The estimated brand value of February 2009. Round this population figure to the
Wal-Mart was $42,570,000,000. Round this to the nearest million. (Source: U.S. Census population
nearest billion. (Source:Wall Street Journal) clock)

33. The average salary for a Boston Red Sox baseball 34. In FY 2008, the Procter & Gamble Company had
player during the 2009 season was $4,089,867. $83,503,000,000 in sales. Round this sales figure to the
Round this average salary to the nearest hundred- nearest billion. (Source: Procter & Gamble)
thousand. (Source: ESPN)

35. The United States currently has 262,700,000 cellular 36. U.S. farms produced 2,933,888,000 bushels of
mobile phone users, while India has 296,886,000 soybeans in 2008. Round the soybean production
users. Round each of the user numbers to the figure to the nearest ten-million. (Source: U.S.
nearest million. (Source: Cellular Department of Agriculture)
Telecommunications Industry Association)

U.S.

India

Objective Estimate the sum or difference by rounding each number to the nearest ten. See Examples 4 and 5.

37. 39 38. 52 39. 449 40. 555
45 33 - 373 - 235
22 15
+ 17 + 29

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Estimate the sum or difference by rounding each number to the nearest hundred. See Examples 4 and 5.

41. 1913 42. 4050 43. 1774 44. 1989 45. 3995 46. 799
1886 3133 - 1492 - 1870 2549 1655
+ 1925 + 1220 + 4944 + 271