How do you round 481,462 to the nearest hundred thousand and to the nearest thousand?

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Gabriel Agustin · Accepted Answer

See a solution process below;

Part A: We must first locate the hundred thousand position. Six places to the left of the decimal point is the hundred thousand position: #color(red)(4)81,462# To round you look to the position to the right of the position you are trying to round to. In this case the #8# to the right of the #color(red)(4)# in the ten thousand place: #color(red)(4)color(blue)(8)1,462# If the digit to the right is less than #5# you keep the digit you are rounding to the same and eliminate all the digits to the right, making them #0#'s up to the decimal point.. If the digit to the right is greater than or equal to #5# you add 1 to the digit you are rounding to and eliminate all the digits to the right,making them #0#'s up to the decimal point.. In this problem the digit to the right is #color(blue)(8)# which is greater than #5#. Therefore, we add #1# to the #color(red)(4)# and eliminate all the digits to the right. making them #0#'s up to the decimal point.. #color(red)(4)color(blue)(8)1,462# rounded to the nearest hundred thousand is: #color(red)(5)00,000# Part B: We must first locate the thousand position. Four places to the left of the decimal point is the thousand position: #48color(red)(1),462# Now perform the rounding using the same guidelines as before.

Mila Anderson · Answer

undefined To round 481,462 to the nearest hundred thousand, you look at the digit in the hundred thousand place, which is 4. Since the digit to the right of 4 is 8, which is 5 or greater, you increase 4 to the next higher digit, which is 5. Therefore, rounding 481,462 to the nearest hundred thousand gives 500,000.

To round 481,462 to the nearest thousand, you look at the digit in the thousand place, which is 1. Since the digit to the right of 1 is 4, which is less than 5, you keep 1 unchanged. Therefore, rounding 481,462 to the nearest thousand gives 481,000.