What's the answer for 92,987 rounded to the nearest ten thousand

Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020

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Given the number:

92,987

Round to the nearest teen 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.

Ten thousands is located 5 units to the left, in our case we have 9, and before 9 we have 2 which is less than 5, therefore we will retain the number as it is.

Final answer:

90,000