a recent census listed the population of a city as 831,982. marisol rounds the population to 830,000, and lindy rounds the popul

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a recent census listed the population of a city as 831,982. marisol rounds the population to 830,000, and lindy rounds the popul

ation to 800,000. PARTE A who rounded the population of the city correctly? explain. PARTE B which rounded population is a more accurate estimate?.

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Crazy boy [7] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-20T22:14:18+03:00

In my opinion, Marisol would be the correct answer for both A and B. I think, though, that the expected answer would be Lindy for A. I say this because with simple numbers such as 10 or 20, if it's 15+ you'd round it to 20, but if it was 14- you'd round it to 10. Does that makes sense?