Round to the nearest hundred thousand the number 387,422
400,000
To round the number 387,422 to the nearest hundred thousand, you need to look at the digit in the hundred thousand place, which is the 3.
If the digit in the hundred thousand place is 5 or greater, you round up. If it's less than 5, you round down.
In this case, the digit in the hundred thousand place is 3, which is less than 5. Therefore, we round down.
To round down, you simply drop all the digits to the right of the hundred thousand place and replace them with zeros.
So, rounding down 387,422 to the nearest hundred thousand gives us 300,000.