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How do you round 3,720 to the nearest hundred?

Answer 1

3,700

When rounding numbers to a specific place value, you have to look at the value of the place one spot to the right. If the number is #<=5#, round up a place. If the number is #>5#, round down.

So... for this problem, you need to round to the nearest hundred. Look at the place value of the tens place. Since is is less than #5#, round down.

#3,720# #3,color(blue)7color(red)(2)0# #3,color(blue)(720)#

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Answer 2

Gianna Caruso

To round 3,720 to the nearest hundred, you look at the digit in the tens place. Since it is 7, which is greater than or equal to 5, you increase the digit in the hundreds place by 1 and replace all the digits to the right with zeros. Therefore, rounding 3,720 to the nearest hundred results in 3,700.

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Answer 3

Zoe Adams

To round 3,720 to the nearest hundred, you look at the digit in the tens place, which is 2. Since 2 is less than 5, you round down the hundreds digit. Therefore, 3,720 rounded to the nearest hundred is 3,700.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.