What is 2,874,992 rounded to the nearest ten thousandth?
1 Answer
Jan 11, 2018
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
The 10,000 term is currently a
To round to a certain place you look at the digit to the right of the place you are rounding to.
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If the digit to the right is greater than or equal to 5 you add 1 to the digit in the place you are rounding to and you make all the digits to the right
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If the digit to the right is less than 5 you keep the digit in the place you are rounding to the same and you make all the digits to the right
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The digit to the right of the 10,000 place is a
#color(blue)(4)# is less than 5 so we keep the digit in the 10,000 place as#color(red)(7)# and we make all the digits to the right#0#