Question

A toothpaste company surveyed 36,219 customers about their favorite toothpaste flavor . The date will be used be help the company decide what flavors to continue making . To the nearest thousand, about how many customers were surveyed.

Answer 1

To the nearest thousands; 36,000 customers were surveyed.

Explanation:

Conversion of figures to the nearest thousand often requires rounding up digits that are not up to 5 in the place of hundreds to zero and rounding up the digits that are up to 5 in the place of hundreds to one, therefore, adding it to the value of the previous thousands.

From the given question, to round up the number of customers surveyed in the company, we have the following:

since we are given the value to be 36,219

9 is in unit position

1 is in tens

2 is in hundreds

6 is in thousands

3 is in ten thousand

since the value of 2 in hundred is not up to 5, we round it up to zero, Then our value becomes 36,000 to the nearest thousand.