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What is 5000 rounded to the nearest hundred

User Fane
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the answer is 5000 because there is zero in the hundreds pl;ace and 0 rounds to zero
User Sania
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The next larger hundred is 5,100 .
The next smaller hundred is 4,900 .
5,000 is exactly midway between 4,900 and 5,100.
Neither of them is closer to 5,000 than the other one is.
So 5,000 is already rounded to the nearest hundred.

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