I was doing a math question and I got the answer "$37,482.43" but the question says to round to the nearest dollar. What would the answer be then?
$0.43 is less than 50 cents.
What do you think the answer is?
Would the answer be 37,000 then? I under stand the concept with small numbers, but the big number is confusing me.
No.
What about the additional 482 dollars?
37,400?
No.
Look at the decimal point.
To round the number $37,482.43 to the nearest dollar, you need to look at the decimal value.
In this case, the decimal value is $0.43, which is less than $0.50. When rounding to the nearest dollar, you round down if the decimal value is less than $0.50, and round up if it's $0.50 or greater.
Since $0.43 is less than $0.50, we round down the whole number to the next lower dollar. Therefore, rounding $37,482.43 to the nearest dollar gives you the answer of $37,482.