Santiago hopes to buy a 4 horse trailer for about $12000. Describe all the numbers that when rounded to the nearest hundred are 12,000.

Question

Santiago hopes to buy a 4 horse trailer for about $12000. Describe all the numbers that when rounded to the nearest hundred are 12,000.

Answer 1

$11,950 < trailer's cost < $12,049

any number in that interval, rounded to nearest hundred dollars = $12,000

if you're closer to 12000 than 12100 round down

if you're at the midpoint 12050, round up to 12100

if you're closer to 12000 than 11900 round up

if you're at the midpoint 11950 round up

50 to 99, round up to 100 for closest hundred

1 to 49 round down to 0 for closest hundred