Question

A baseball stadium has 38,496 seats.Rounded to the nearest thousand,how many seats is this?

Answer 1

Rounded to the nearest thousand, 38,496 would be turned into 38,000, because the number to its right is lower than five.

If the number to the right of the 8 were a 5 or above, then the original number would change to 39,000.

Answer 2

Answer: 38,000

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : A baseball stadium has 38,496 seats.

We can see that in the given number 8,486 is near to 8000 rather than 9000 [∵  8,486 lies in between 8000 and 9000 ]

Therefore, when we round 38,496  to the nearest thousand, we get

$38,496\approx38,000$

Therefore, when we round the given number of seats (38,496) ,we get total number of seats as  38,000.

hence, the required answer is 38,000.