Question

Round 15,500 to the nearest ten thousand

Answer 1

its 20,000 hope this helps!! :)

Answer 2

20,000.

Explanation:

We are asked to round 15,500 to the nearest ten thousand.

We know that when the next digit to rounded digit is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4; then we keep the same digit.

When the next digit to rounded digit is 5 or more than 5; then we round up our answer by one digit.

We can see that thousands digit in 15,500 is 5, therefore, we will round up our answer to nearest ten thousand as:

`15,500\approx 20,000`

Therefore, 15,500 to the nearest ten thousand would be 20,000.