Question

There were 2605 people at the basketball game. A report rounded this number to the nearest hundred for a newspaper article. Which number did the report use

Answer 1

2600 because it needs to be rounded to the nearest hundred and if it was 2650 that would be rounded to 2700

Answer 2

Answer: 2700 is the number which must be used by the report.

Explanation:

Given : There were 2605 people at the basketball game.

A report rounded this number to the nearest hundred for a newspaper article.

We know that 2600<2605<2700

Now, Round off 2605 to the nearest hundred, we get

2605→2600 , as 2605 is nearer to 2600 rather than 2700.

Therefore, 2700 is the number which must be used by the report.