Question

Rewrite these statements to make them newspaper headlines by rounding
off the numbers mentioned in them
a) 4,72,236 people affected by cyclone (round off to the nearest 1,000)
b) 17,252 people visited the festival fair (round off to the nearest 100)
C) 998 animals and 3,895 people went missing in Nepal earthquake
(round off to the nearest 10)
d) 65,472 people watched the football match (round off to the nearest 1,000)
NUMBERS
17​

Answer 1

The answers are as follows:

a) 4,72,000 people affected by cyclone.

b) 17,300 people visited the festival fair.

c) 1000 animals and 3900 people went missing in the Nepal earthquake.

d) 65,000 people watched the football match.

Estimation

• In the given exercise, we need to estimate the given numbers and find their round-off values.

• In b and c, the nearest numbers are greater than five. Thus, they have been rounded off to a higher number.

• In a and d, the nearest numbers are less than five. Thus, they have been rounded off to a lower number.

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