Answer:
The closest to the actual attendance is 127000.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given : One day, the state fair total attendance was 126,945.
To find : Round to the nearest hundred thousand, nearest ten thousand and nearest thousand. Which of these rounded amounts is the closest to the actual attendance?
Solution :
Rounding a number rule :
1) If the rounded number after place is greater than 5 then the next number round upto by 1.
2) If the rounded number after place is less than 5 then the number remain same and rest became zero.
Number 126,945
Round to the nearest hundred thousand.
At hundred thousand place there is 1 and after that there is 2<5
So, It rounded to 100000.
Round to the nearest ten thousand.
At ten thousand place there is 2 and after that there is 6>5
So, It rounded to 130000.
Round to the nearest thousand.
At thousand place there is 6 and after that there is 9>5
So, It rounded to 127000.
Above all the closest to the actual attendance is 127000.
