Unit 3 Contents

1. Round the population of Colorado to the nearest 1 million. What two benchmarks did you use?
2. Round the population of Colorado to the nearest hundred thousand. What two benchmarks did you use?
1. Round the population of Florida to the nearest ten million. Name the two benchmarks you used.
2. Round the population of Florida to the nearest million. What two benchmarks did you use?

Use the 2012 State Population Table 2 to answer Questions 1–5.

1. Read each number aloud.
2. Put the populations of Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, and Indiana in order from the smallest to the largest.
2. Use expanded form to write the numbers that have a 3 or 8 in the 10,000 place.
3. Use word form to write the numbers for the two states that have the reported populations closest to 3 million.
4. Is the population of Kansas closer to 2,800,000 or 2,900,000?