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How do you round 4,262 to the nearest thousand?

Answer 1

#4,000#

The "thousands" are: #color(white)("XXX")0000# #color(white)("XXX")1000# #color(white)("XXX")2000# #color(white)("XXX")3000# #color(white)("XXX")4000# #color(white)("XXX")5000# #color(white)("XXX")6000# #color(white)("XXX")#...and so on.

The closest of these numbers to #4,262# is #color(white)("XXX")4000#

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Answer 2

Gianna Caruso

To round 4,262 to the nearest thousand, look at the hundreds place, which is 2 in this case. Since the hundreds place is less than 500, we round down. Therefore, 4,262 rounded to the nearest thousand is 4,000.

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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.