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Derek is thinking of a number. When he rounds his number to the nearest 10, he gets 580. When he rounds his number to the nearest 100, could he get 500? Why or why not?

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No, because if you can round it to 580 the number must be 575-584 and that will round to 600
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no,because to be rounded to 10 it has to be at least 575 which would have to be rounded to 600
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