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A recent census listed the population of a city as 831,982. Marisol rounds the population to 830,000, and Lindy rounds the population to 800,000. Who rounded the population correctly? Explain , and which rounded pop is a more accurate estimate?

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the census because it is rounded to the nearest thousandth which is a smaller range of numbers compared to the nearest one-hundred thousandth
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