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Look at the prices of the following items.
Sh.425
Sh.789
Sh.945
Look at the new prices of the items after rounding off to the nearest hundred.
Sh.400
Sh.800
Sh.900
Why do you think we rounded off to the nearest hundred?
The prices are easily noticeable.
One can remember the prices without much struggle.
(Sh.400 Sh.800, Sh.900)
Look at the following number
3769
Can you round it off to the nearest thousand?
We look at the hundred place value
If the digit in the hundred place value is 5,6,7,8, or 9., The digit in a thousand increases by one.
If the digit in the hundred place value is 4,3,2,1, or 0.The digit in the thousand place value remains the same.
Look at what happened to the digit in a thousand place value.
It was kept.
Note
The digits in the place value of hundreds, tens and Ones changed to zeroes.
Assignment
Round off the following numbers to the nearest thousand.
8,956
4,423
25,289
9,175
357
Answers
7,000
4,000
9,000
00000
9,000
25,000
