Question

A forest ranger correctly rounded the number of visitors to a park to be 120,000 visitors. Write a number that could be the actual number of visitors if he rounded to the nearest ten thousand?4 grade student

Answer 1

The Solution:

Given that the number of visitors was approximated to the nearest ten thousand as 120,000.

Required:

Write the possible actual number of visitors.

`lower\text{ actual number}=115,000`
`upper\text{ actual number}=124,000`

So, the actual number falls in the range:

`115,000\leq actual\text{ number}\leq124,000`