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An essay contains 549 words. To the nearest hundred, how many words are in the essay?

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Answer: 500 as 49 is closer to 500 by 1, if it was 550 then it would have been 600. It's basically just estimation or rounding it off to the nearest hundred

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500, because 549 is closer to 500 than 600.
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