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there were 2,605 people at the basket ball game. a reporter rounded this number to the nearest hundred for a newspaper article. what number did the reporter use?
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there were 2,605 people at the basket ball game. a reporter rounded this number to the nearest hundred for a newspaper article. what number did the reporter use?

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The reporter had rounded the amount of people at the basket ball game to 2,600.
Reason: 605 is closer to 600 than 700, therefor the answer must be 600.
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