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What is 5,812 rounded to the nearest Thousand?

Answer 1

We can round #5,812# as #6000#.

Marking the position to which a number is to be rounded is the first step in rounding any number to the nearest desired position.

Here we have to round #5,812# to nearest thousand and we have #5# in that position, we write it as

#5812# #color(red)uarr#

Here we have placed a red arrow immediately to the right of #5# and between next digits #812#.

Now let us examine #812#. As this is #500# or more (i.e. more than half of one thousand to which we have to round,

hence, we can round #5,812# as #6000#

Note Had it been less than #500#, we would have just omitted it and it would have been rounded to #5000#.

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Answer 2

Cameron Arnold

5,812 rounded to the nearest thousand is 6,000.

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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.