Question

estimate 56,366 - 16,900 by first rounding each number to the nearest thousands

Answer 1

What do you get if you round 56,366 to the nearest thousands?
Here's a picture that shows the place values and there names:

Answer 2

To round 56,366 to the nearest thousands, ask yourself:
Is 56,366 closer to 56,000 or 57,000?
Choose the nearer one. That will be rounding to the nearest thousands.

Similarly, is 16,900 closer to 16,000 or 17,000?

Answer 3

the answer that I got was 39,000 is that right

Answer 4

56,000-17000=?

Answer 5

Correct.

Answer 6

ok thank you guys. its been 10 yrs since I have benn in school and don't really remember