Question

1800 peoples came for the football match. If this number is correct to the nearest hundred , give the maximum and minimum number of people that could have come.

Answer 1

Minimum value = 1750

Maximum value = 1849

Explanation:

Given that:

Number of people who came for match = 1800 (to the nearest hundred)

The maximum. And minimum number of people who came are ;

When rounding to tbe nearest hundred , the tens value which is after the the hundred value is either rounded to 0 or 1 depending on whether the the value is below 5 or greater than or equal to 5 respectively.

Hence,

Minimum value = 1750

Maximum value = 1849