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the cost of the Joneses new car was $26,000 when rounded to the nearest thousand what is the greatest possible amount the car could have cost

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Rounding to the nearest thousand means that anywhere from 25500 to 26499 is rounded to 26k because that is the closest clean thousand that they are to (and when at 25500, it rounds up automatically). Therefore, the maximum is 26499.
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$25,599.99 is the greatest cost it could have been
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