Question

Round off the following number to the nearest hundreds: $872$

Answer 1

Rounding off to nearest hundred

First, check the tens place digit of the given number.

Here, the tens place digit of $872$ is $7$.

According to the rounding off to nearest hundered rule,

• If tens place digit $<$ 5, replace the tens and ones place digits by $0$ and keep other digits same.
• If tens place digit is $⩾$5, replace the tens and ones place digits by $0$ and increase the hundreds digit by $1$, keeping other digits same.

Since, $7>5$, the tens and ones place digits are replaced by $0$ and hundreds place digit will be increased by 1.

So, $872$ rounded off to the nearest hundreds is $900$.

Hence, $872$ rounded off to the nearest hundreds is $900$.