round 997 to the nearest hundreds

1,000

1000

To round a number to the nearest hundreds, you need to look at the tens digit of the number. If the tens digit is 5 or greater, you round up to the next hundred. If the tens digit is 4 or less, you round down to the previous hundred.

In this case, the tens digit of 997 is 9, which is greater than 5. So to round 997 to the nearest hundreds, we need to round up.

To do that, we increment the hundreds digit by 1 and replace all the digits to the right with zeros. In this case, the hundreds digit is 9, so when we round up, we get 1000.

Therefore, rounding 997 to the nearest hundreds gives us 1000.