Question

Round 23,879 to the nearest thousand

Answer 1

23, 879 to the nearest thousand.

The thousand digit is  the 3, and we look at the digit after 3, which is 8, since 8 is more than 5, we round up the 3 to 4.

Therefore 23, 879 to the nearest thousand ≈ 24, 000

I hope this explains it.