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Whole Numbers: Sport & Business

Use place value and whole-number operations to investigate a sports event and a small business. Show working for calculations and include units where useful.

Sports event: the big numbers

A stadium has 100,024 seats. For a weekend match, ticket sales are shown below. The ticket prices are $120 for Premium, $88 for Gold and $40 for General Admission.

Ticket type

Tickets sold

Price each

Premium

10,500

$120

Gold

40,000

$88

General Admission

37,159

$40

1.Calculate the total attendance. Then find how many seats are empty.

2.Find the value of the 8 in 87,659. What does this digit tell you about the attendance?

3.Calculate the total ticket revenue using the table. Show each ticket type's revenue before adding.

4.A scoreboard shows 76,408. Write this number in expanded form.

5.Put these crowd estimates in ascending order: 87,659; 87,596; 86,975; 88,005.

Business: a busy bakery

A bakery packs muffins for local shops. On Monday it makes 2,450 muffins, Tuesday 2,875, Wednesday 3,120 and Thursday 2,555. Each delivery crate holds 100 muffins.

6.How many muffins does the bakery make altogether over the four days?

7.If all 11,000 muffins are packed into full crates of 100, how many crates are needed?

8.The bakery sells 8,765 muffins by Friday. How many muffins remain?

9.The manager says 2,235 is closer to 2,000 than to 3,000. Is the manager correct? Explain using rounding to the nearest thousand.

10.A delivery van has space for 1,000 muffins. Can it carry the 2,235 muffins remaining in one trip? If not, what is the fewest number of trips needed?