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427 rounded to the nearest hundred

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400 because 427 is not closer to 500.
User Kinjal
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427 to the nearest hundred.

The hundred digit is 4. After the 4, is 2. And 2 is not up to 5, so we round down, by stepping down to zeros.

≈ 400 to the nearest hundred
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