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Shannon orders 25,846 pounds of gravel for her driveway. What is this amount rounded to the nearest hundred pounds?

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What is a hundred? A hundred would be 846. What does it mean to round to the nearest hundred pounds? It's to make the number end with 00, so 100, 200, 300. If you have 467, you'd round it to 500, because that's the closest hundred it can be rounded to. So the answer would 25,800.
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