NCERT Extra Questions for Class 5 Maths Chapter 1: We the Travellers — I – Free PDF Download

These practice questions revisit the place value, rounding, expanded form, and number comparison ideas from Class 5 Maths Chapter 1, We the Travellers – I, through a mix of multiple choice, short answer, and word problems so a child can build test-ready confidence.

Multiple Choice Questions

Q1. What is the place value of 7 in 4,73,205?
(a) 7,000 (b) 70,000 (c) 700 (d) 7
Answer: (b) 70,000 – the 7 sits in the ten-thousands place.

Q2. Round 6,842 to the nearest hundred.
(a) 6,800 (b) 6,900 (c) 6,840 (d) 7,000
Answer: (a) 6,800 – the tens digit is 4, so round down.

Q3. Which is the greatest number that can be formed using 5, 1, 8, 0 once each?
(a) 8,510 (b) 8,501 (c) 8,150 (d) 5,810
Answer: (a) 8,510 – arranging digits in descending order gives the greatest number.

Q4. Which is bigger: 5,280 or 5,208?
(a) 5,280 (b) 5,208 (c) Both equal (d) Cannot tell
Answer: (a) 5,280 – the hundreds digits are equal (2), so the tens digit decides (8 > 0).

Short Answer Questions

Q5. Write 7,309 in expanded form.
7000 + 300 + 0 + 9.

Q6. Round 3,955 to the nearest thousand.
4,000 – the hundreds digit is 9, so round up.

Q7. Form the smallest 4-digit number using the digits 4, 0, 6, 3 (each used once).
3,046 – place the smallest non-zero digit first (3), then 0, then the rest in ascending order.

Q8. What is the value of the digit 9 in 92,415?
90,000 – the 9 is in the ten-thousands place.

Word Problems

Q9. A train travels 2,458 km. Round this distance to the nearest ten.
2,460 km – the ones digit is 8, so round up.

Q10. City A has a population of 84,520 and City B has 84,250. Which city has more people, and how do you know?
City A, with 84,520 – comparing digit by digit, the thousands digits are equal (4), so the hundreds digit decides (5 > 2).

Q11. A traveller must cross a river carrying a fox, a hen, and a sack of corn, one at a time, without leaving the fox alone with the hen, or the hen alone with the corn. Which item should be carried across first, and why?
The hen should go first, because leaving the fox with the corn on the near bank is safe (a fox does not eat corn), while leaving the hen with either the fox or the corn alone is not safe.

Q12. Write the greatest 5-digit number possible using the digits 2, 7, 0, 9, 4, then round it to the nearest hundred.
Greatest number: 97,420. Rounded to the nearest hundred (check tens digit 2, round down): 97,400.

Why These Help

Each question reuses the same core skills – checking the correct digit while rounding, comparing numbers place by place, and building numbers from digits – with fresh numbers each time. Practising with varied numbers, rather than memorising one example, is what makes place value and rounding automatic for a test.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. Do these questions come directly from the NCERT textbook?
No – these are original practice questions built on the same rounding, place-value, and number-formation ideas taught in the chapter, designed to give extra practice beyond the textbook exercises.

Q2. What’s a quick way to check a rounding answer?
Compare the rounded number to the original – a correctly rounded number should never be off by more than half of the place value it was rounded to (e.g. rounding to the nearest hundred should never change the answer by more than 50).

Q3. How do I know how many digits the greatest possible number will have?
It always uses every given digit exactly once, so the number of digits in the answer equals the number of digits provided, arranged from largest to smallest.

Q4. Why do some questions ask to compare numbers with the same number of digits?
Because when digit counts are equal, the comparison must go further – place by place from the left – which is exactly the skill this chapter is testing.

Q5. Is rounding always used to make numbers smaller?
No – rounding can make a number larger (rounding up) or leave the leading digits unchanged while zeroing the rest (rounding down), depending on the digit being checked.

See the Chapter 1 Solutions and Revision Notes for the full walkthrough.

Written by Satish

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