Question

12,781 rounded to the nearest hundred

Answer 1

12,800

cause the hundreths place is at the 7

and the number is 781

if its 50 or over you round up 81 is over so youll make it 800

Answer 2

First, identify the digit in the hundreds place.

12,781

Left 1 - ten-thousands place

2 - thousands place

7 - hundreds place - the one we are interested in

8 - tens place

Right 1 - ones place

Now we know the 7 is in the hundreds place.

12,781

To round off to the nearest 100, all digits to the right of the digit in the hundreds place become zero.

12,781 becomes first 12,700, but now we need one more step.

Look in the original number at the digit just to the right of the hundreds digit. It is an 8. Since 8 is greater than or equal to 5, the previous digit goes up by 1, so the 7 becomes an 8, as in 12,800, and the rounded number is 12,800.

Answer: 12,800