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Grocery Trip Rounding: Weights and Prices

Grade 5 rounding practice on a grocery trip. Students round deli weights, shelf prices, and gas prices to different decimal places.

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Aligned to5.NBT.A.4

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 5
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students round decimals to the nearest whole number, tenth, and hundredth using place value.
  • Students round money amounts to the nearest cent, dollar, and ten dollars.
  • Students explain why rounding looks only at the digit to the right of the rounding place.

How to use

Use after teaching place value to thousandths. Have students underline the rounding place and circle the digit to its right before they round each number.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

5.NBT.A.4

Round decimals to any place.

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Grocery Trip Rounding: Weights and Prices

Round decimals to the nearest ten, whole number, tenth, or hundredth.

At the deli and produce counters

The store scales show weight in pounds. Round each weight to the place named.

1.
The deli scale shows 1.846 pounds of sliced turkey. Round to the nearest tenth.

1.846 rounds to   pounds

2.
A bag of grapes weighs 2.375 pounds. Round to the nearest hundredth.

2.375 rounds to   pounds

3.
A watermelon weighs 12.62 pounds. Round to the nearest whole pound.

12.62 rounds to   pounds

4.
A block of cheese weighs 0.968 pound. Round to the nearest tenth.

0.968 rounds to   pound

5.
A bunch of bananas weighs 3.049 pounds. Round to the nearest hundredth.

3.049 rounds to   pounds

Shelf tags and weights

Use place value to round. Choose, sort, or match the answers.

6.
A shelf tag says a box of cereal costs $0.237 per ounce. What is $0.237 rounded to the nearest cent (hundredth)?
  • A. $0.23
  • B. $0.20
  • C. $0.24
  • D. $0.30
7.
Mr. Patel's bag of apples weighs 4.6 pounds when rounded to the nearest tenth. Which could be its exact weight?
  • A. 4.549 pounds
  • B. 4.652 pounds
  • C. 4.66 pounds
  • D. 4.56 pounds
8.
Round each price to the nearest dollar. Sort the prices.
$5.49$5.52$4.81$6.27$4.50$5.95
Rounds to $5Rounds to $6
9.
A bag of potatoes weighs 7.384 pounds. Match each rounding place to the rounded weight. One answer is not used.
  1. nearest whole number
  2. nearest tenth
  3. nearest hundredth
  1. A. 7.4
  2. B. 7.38
  3. C. 7
  4. D. 7.39

Heading home

Round each amount. Think about which digit tells you to round up or down.

10.
On the way home, the family passes six gas stations. Circle every price per gallon that rounds to $3.46 when rounded to the nearest cent.

$3.459$3.465$3.454$3.455$3.461$3.469

11.
All of the groceries together weigh 19.97 pounds. Round to the nearest tenth.

19.97 rounds to   pounds

12.
The receipt total is $86.47. Round the total to the nearest ten dollars.

$86.47 rounds to $ 

13.
Leo rounded 5.349 to the nearest tenth. He says, "First I round 5.349 to 5.35. Then 5.35 rounds to 5.4." Is Leo right? Explain.

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