Question

What is $53$ rounded to the nearest hundred?

Answer 1

Hint: In the given question, we are given a number $53$ and we need to find what is $53$ rounded to the nearest hundred. When we round a number to the nearest hundred, we have to consider the digit to the right, which is the tens.
There are three ways to round a number:
1. Round up: When we ROUND UP a number, we take the smallest value possible that is larger than the figure.
2. Round down: When we ROUND DOWN a number, we take the largest value possible that is smaller than the figure.

Complete step by step answer:
If we round to “the nearest hundred”, our answer will be multiple of $100$, i.e.,
$0,100,200,300,....$ and so on.
The values are halfway between hundreds and fifties.
A number less than $50$ is closer to the lower multiple of $100$.
A number more than $50$ is closer to the higher multiple of $100$.
As we know $53$ lies between $0$ and $100$. However it is more than $50$, so it is closer to $100$, and it rounds up to $100$.
Therefore, our answer is $100$.

Note:
Remember that for the given number $53$, $100$ is the smallest hundred that is larger than 53. Also, when we ROUND OFF a number, we see if the number exceeds half of the required accuracy, i.e. hundreds in this case. If the required number is more than half of the required accuracy, we ROUND UP the figure. If it is lower than half of the required accuracy, we ROUND DOWN the figure.