Question

An online company sold 3,586,598 copies of the book Favorite Pizza Recipes and 2,819,249 copies of the book Easy-to-Learn Guitar Songs.

Round each number to the nearest hundred thousand.

About how many copies of the two books were sold altogether?

A.
5,000,000

B.
6,000,000

C.
6,300,000

D.
6,400,000

Answer 1

First we need to round both numbers

Answer 2

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^6

Answer 3

3,586,598
^ Hundred thousands place

What's the number after that?

Answer 4

8 so were gonna round up

Answer 5

yep

Answer 6

Yep, you got it, what do we round to?

Answer 7

4,ooo,000 or

Answer 8

We are only rounding to the hundred thousands, not the millions place :)

Answer 9

i know i got confused

Answer 10

3,586,598
^ We add 1 to this place if we're rounding up, so what's 5 + 1?

Answer 11

We want to look at 3,5\(\bf 8\)6,598 to know what number to round. We are going to round 5 up

Answer 12

I think that we have to round off the sum only

Answer 13

They said to round each number to the nearest hundred thousand though?

Answer 14

^^^^

Answer 15

"Round each number to the nearest hundred thousand. "

Then we add 'em up

Answer 16

oops.. sorry @sleepyjess

Answer 17

It's fine haha
We all make mistakes :)

Answer 18

@TheEdwardsFamily Still there?

Answer 19

yeah

Answer 20

@iGreen

Answer 21

3,586,598
^ We add 1 to this place if we're rounding up, so what's 5 + 1?