Question

A museum had 275,608 visitors last year. what is this number rounded to the nearest thousand?

Answer 1

It is 276,000 because if it is above 275,500 it rounds to 276,000 if it was less than 275,000 then it would be 275,000

Answer 2

276 thousand visitors.

Step-by-step explanation:

When you are rounding numbers remember that you round to the next number if the number immidiately to the right to the one you are rounding is 5 or higher, and if it is 4 or lower you round to the number you originally have, for example if you have 275,405, you round it to the nearest thousand to 274 thousand, since the immidiate next number is 4 and that rounds down. In this case the next immidiate number is 6 so you round up to 276 thousand.