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The volume of a barrel of oil is calculated as 257,166 cm³. Round this figure to the nearest hundred thousand.

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The hundred thousand digit is the 2 in 257,166. Because the ten thousands digit is 5, you round up to 300,000

According to the round off rules, the round figure to the nearest hundred thousand of the volume of a barrel of oil is 300000 [tex]\rm cm^3[/tex].

Given :

The volume of a barrel of oil is calculated as 257,166 [tex]\rm cm^3[/tex].

Solution :

Rules for round off to nearest 1000 are as follows:

  • If the digit in the hundreds place is between 0 – 4 i.e., < 5, then the hundreds place is replaced by ‘0’.
  • If the digit in the hundreds place is = to or > 5, then the hundreds place is replaced by ‘0’ and the thousands place is increased by 1.

Rules for round off to Nearest Hundred are as follows:

  • Identify the hundreds digit.
  • Identify the next smallest place value.
  • Is that digit greater than or equal to five.
  • Increase the hundreds digit by one.

Therefore according to this rules round figure to the nearest hundred thousand of the volume of a barrel of oil is 300000 [tex]\rm cm^3[/tex].

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