Question

Audrey read that the area of a new shopping mall is 57,600square feet. What are the greatest and least possible actual areas of the mall if 58,000 square feet is an estimate to the nearest thousand?

Answer 1

Thousand is the fourth place from the left. The number is rounded up if the number before it is 5 or greater and rounded down if the number before it is 4 or less.

The greatest number that would be the value of the actual area is,
58449

The least number that the actual area could take is,
57500


ANSWER: 58449 and 57500