Question

A baseball stadium has 38,496 seats. Round to the nearest thousand , how many seats is this

Answer 1

38,496 rounded to the nearest thousand is 38,000.

Answer 2

We get 38,000 when rounded to the nearest thousand.

Explanation:

Consider the provided number 38,496 .

Here, we need to round off to the nearest thousand.

The rule of rounding a number is:

If 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 follow the number, then no need to change the rounding digit.

If 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 follow the number, then rounding digit rounds up by one number.

Round the number by using following steps:

Step 1: Identify the thousand place and underline it.

38,496

Step 2: Find the right digit to the thousand place. i.e 4

Here 4 is less than 5 so no need to change the rounding digit.

Step 3: 38,496 = 38,000

Therefore, we get 38,000 when rounded to the nearest thousand.