document.write( "Question 23377: how to round off 8,008,278 to the nearest ten thousand \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #12169 by AnlytcPhil(1806)\"\" \"About 
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how to round off 8,008,278 to the nearest ten thousand.\r\n" );
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document.write( "First let's name all the digits, starting at the far right and moving\r\n" );
document.write( "to the left.\r\n" );
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document.write( "8 (on the far right) is the one's digit\r\n" );
document.write( "7 is the ten's digit\r\n" );
document.write( "2 is the hundred's digit\r\n" );
document.write( "8 (the 8 in the middle)is the thousand's digit\r\n" );
document.write( "0 (the 0 farthest to the right) is the ten-thousand's digit\r\n" );
document.write( "0 (the 0 farthest to the left) is the hundred-thousand's digit\r\n" );
document.write( "8 (the 8 on the far left) is the million's digit\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since you are to round off to the nearest ten thousand, I will color\r\n" );
document.write( "the ten-thousand's digit, the right-most 0, red,\r\n" );
document.write( "and the digits to the right of it blue:\r\n" );
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document.write( "                  8,008,278\r\n" );
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document.write( "We look at the digit just right of that 0.  It is an 8.  Since 8 is 5 or more\r\n" );
document.write( "we add one to the 0 in the ten-thousand's place, getting 1, so we replace that\r\n" );
document.write( "0 in the ten-thousand's place by 1.  Then we replace ALL digits to the\r\n" );
document.write( "right of that ten-thousand's digit with 0's\r\n" );
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document.write( "Final result:\r\n" );
document.write( "                  8,010,000\r\n" );
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