How do you round 9241 to the nearest thousand?

Answer 1

9241 or 9(thousands) 2(hundreds) 4(tens) 1(ones)

You need to figure out what the hundreds column is closer to, in this case is 2 closer to zero or 10? Zero. So you would round down to 9000 or 9(thousand).

But say it was 9529 or 9(thousand) 5(hundred) 2(tens) 9(ones)

Here you would need to find out what the tens column is, because 5 (in this case) is in the middle of 9 thousand and 10 thousand. But if the tens column had a number of 1 or up, it would be rounded to 10 thousand, same for the ones column.

Typically, if it was exactly in the middle (9500) you round up to (10 000) rather than down (9000)