If you were rounding to the nearest 100, then yes it would.
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It is: 500 and not 490
500
That number rounds to 490 or 500. Numbers from 1-4 round downwards and number 5-9 round upwards.
The number 490 is already rounded to the nearest ten.
To find the product of 612 and 490 by rounding both numbers to the nearest hundred before multiplying, we first round 612 to 600 and 490 to 500. Then, we multiply 600 by 500 to get 300,000. Therefore, the product of 612 and 490, rounded to the nearest hundred before multiplying, is 300,000.