MEP Y7 Practice Book A
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Example 2
What is the value of the '6' in each of these numbers?
(a) 167 (b) 2006 (c) 6423
Solution
(a) '6' means 6 tens = 60
(b) '6' means 6 units = 6
(c) '6' means 6 thousands = 6000
Exercises
1. Write each of these numbers to the nearest 10.
(a) 89 (b) 45 (c) 72
(d) 12 (e) 9 (f) 2
(g) 4713 (h) 5629 (i) 4755
2. Write each of these numbers to the nearest 100.
(a) 376 (b) 1417 (c) 24 699
(d) 101 (e) 149 (f) 251
3. Write each of these numbers to the nearest 1000.
(a) 1001 (b) 2500 (c) 3999
(d) 132 400 (e) 56 471 (f) 555 511
4. A milkman delivered 109 865 bottles of milk in one year.
Write the number of bottles to:
(a) the nearest 100,
(b) the nearest 1000,
(c) the nearest 10,
(d) the nearest 10 000.
5. A school has 1256 pupils. Write this number to:
(a) the nearest 10,
(b) the nearest 100,
(c) the nearest 1000.
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6. Explain what the '9' represents in each of these numbers.
(a) 19 (b) 91 (c) 190
(d) 1971 (e) 19 800 (f) 2190
(g) 9 100 001 (h) 9 001 111 (i) 900 371 423
7. Write these numbers in words.
(a) 32 (b) 14 (c) 86
(d) 124 (e) 328 (f) 1463
(g) 3 000 000 (h) 4 713 000 (i) 3 991 001
8. Write each of the following in figures.
(a) Twenty four
(b) Eighty six
(c) Nineteen
(d) One hundred and twenty
(e) Three hundred and four
(f) One thousand and twenty six
(g) Three million, four hundred thousand
(h) One thousand and five
9. For each statement below, explain whether it is likely to be true or false.
(a) The average shoe size in your class is size 6.
(b) The average length of a car is 10 metres.
(c) The average height of an adult is 176 cm.
(d) The number of matches in a matchbox is 50.
(e) The average height of children in a class of Year 7 pupils is 138 cm.
(f) John counted 12 people on his bus this morning.
(g) Sarah saw 120 people get onto her bus on her way to school.
10. Place the numbers below in order, with the smallest first.
(a) 147, 222, 316, 47, 32, 1004.
(b) 1472, 3416, 621, 3813, 1471, 15 721.
(c) 6000, 60 000, 3000, 30 000, 4 000 000.
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11. (a) What is the largest possible number you can make using each of these
digits once only: 4, 6, 3, 2 and 8 ?
(b) What is the smallest number you can make using all the digits in (a)?
(c) What do you notice about the order of the digits in your answers to
(a) and (b)?
(d) How do your answers change if you can use 0 as well?
12. You are given the number 1735. You are allowed to swap the positions of
any two digits.
For example, 1 7 3 5 gives 1 3 7 5
or, 1 7 3 5 gives 5 7 3 1
(a) Explain how to make the largest possible number using one swap.
(b) Explain how to make the smallest possible number with one swap.
13. Ramesh says that there are 120 pupils in his year at school. If he has
rounded the number of pupils in his year to the nearest 10, how many
pupils could there be in his school year? (Write all the possible answers.)
14. A newspaper report states that 42 000 people watched a football match at
Wembley. The actual number has been rounded to the nearest 1000.
(a) What is the largest possible number of people that watched the
match?
(b) What is the smallest possible number of people that watched the
match?
15. The table gives the results and attendances for some football matches.
Answer these questions using the table.
(a) Which match had the BLACKBURN 1 ARSENAL 4
28,212
largest attendance?
DERBY 4 BOLTON 0
(b) Find the total attendance 29,126
at all the matches to the LIVERPOOL 2 CRYSTAL PALACE 1
43,007
nearest 1000. NEWCASTLE 2 BARNSLEY 1
36,534
(c) How many more people
SHEFFIELD WED 1 WEST HAM 1
watched Newcastle than 28,036
watched Wimbledon, to TOTTENHAM 1 COVENTRY 1
33,463
the nearest 100?
WIMBLEDON 0 EVERTON 0
15,131
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