98000
98257 rounded to the nearest thousand is 98000. Look to the digit to the right of the thousands, the hundreds. When rounding anything less than five you round down. When rounding anything five or more you round up. In this case the hundreds digit is 2, which is less than 5 so you round down to 0, making the number 98000.
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