what is 14494 rounded to the nearest ten thousand

Given the value:

14,494

Round to the nearest ten thousand.

Solution:

In rounding numbers, it must be taken to note that if the number is greater than or equal to 5 then the succeeding number will be added by 1, hence if the number is less than 5, then the succeeding number will remain the same.

Since we are asked to round to the nearest ten thousand, we must determine first where ten thousand is. The number places are as follow in an ascending order: Ones/units, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, hundred millions, and so on.
For decimals, the number places starts with; tenths, hundredths, thousandths, ten thousandths, hundred thousandths, and so on.

The value of the ten thousands place in the given is 1, and before 1 we have 4 which is less than 5, therefore we will retain 1 as it is.

Final answer: 

10,000