document.write( "Question 29290: how do you round 150,983 to the nearest ten-thousand? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #16144 by longjonsilver(2297)\"\" \"About 
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well, visually, lets write down a few numbers written to the nearest 10 thousand:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "90,000
\n" ); document.write( "100,000
\n" ); document.write( "110,000
\n" ); document.write( "120,000
\n" ); document.write( "130,000
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\n" ); document.write( "150,000
\n" ); document.write( "160,000
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "So, which of these is 150,983 closest to?...answer is 150,000.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "How to do it \"properly\"?
\n" ); document.write( "well, ten thousand means the number after the 1 here, so the answer is going to be 150,000 or 160,000. \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "We need to look at the number after the 5 and depending upon that, we either leave the 5 alone or we round up to 160,000.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The number is a zero...so we leave the 5 alone --> answer is 150,000\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "eg, what about 157,348?
\n" ); document.write( "Here we have a 7... so that means the number is closer to 160,000 than it is to 150,000, so we round the number up to 160,000 in this case\r
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