Question

An ice cream shop has a sign in their window that says, "We sell 12,000 scoops per month." The number of scoops has been rounded. Which could be the number of scoops sold if they rounded to the nearest thousand? Choose all answers that apply

Answer 1

11,501 ≤ x ≤ 12,500

Explanation:

When rounding, if the number is 1 more than half it gets rounded up and if it is exactly at half or less it gets rounded down. For example, since in this case we are rounding to the nearest 1000 anything above 501 gets rounded up and anything less than that gets rounded down. Therefore, since the shop sells 12,000 scoops per month the possible values for it to get rounded to the nearest thousand would be the following, were this is represented by the variable x.

11,501 ≤ x ≤ 12,500