Question

What is 5,812 rounded to the nearest Thousand?

Answer 1

We can round `5,812` as `6000`.

Explanation:

To round any number to the nearest desired position, one should first mark the position, to which number is to be rounded.

Here we have to round `5,812` to nearest thousand and we have `5` in that position, we write it as

`5812`
`color(red)uarr`

Here we have placed a red arrow immediately to the right of `5` and between next digits `812`.

Now let us examine `812`. As this is `500` or more (i.e. more than half of one thousand to which we have to round,

hence, we can round `5,812` as `6000`

Note Had it been less than `500`, we would have just omitted it and it would have been rounded to `5000`.