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What is 271,403 rounded to the nearest ten thousand

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Answer:

270,000

Step-by-step explanation:

The ten-thousandths place is the fifth digit to the left of the decimal point, which is a 7 in this case.

The next number to the right of the 7 is a 4, which is 4 or less, so you don't need to round up the 7. This means we can just replace the 4 and everything to the right of it with 0s.

If the 4 were 5 or more instead, you would turn the 7 into an 8 and then turn everything after it into 0s.

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