how do you round 49,052 to the nearest thousand?

Question

how do you round 49,502 to the  nearest thousand?

Answer 1

The 9 is in the thousands place.

Look one digit to the right, in the hundreds place.

If that digit is 5 or greater, then add 1 to the 9.

If that digit is 4 or less, then leave the 9 alone.

Replace everything to the right of the 9 with 0s.

0 in the hundreds place.

0 is 4 or less, so leave the 9 alone.

Answer:  49,000

 

If the problem had been to round 49,552 to the nearest thousand, then the 5 in the hundreds place would have made the 9 go up by 1 and the answer would have been 50,000.