In 2010 Singapore welcome 11600000 overseas visitors. This value has been rounded off to the nearest 100000. What are the largest and smallest possible numbers of overseas visitors?

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Josiah Faulkner

28 July, 22:12

In 2010 Singapore welcome 11600000 overseas visitors. This value has been rounded off to the nearest 100000. What are the largest and smallest possible numbers of overseas visitors?

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Jason Brady · Answer 1

The largest possible number of overseas visitors would be 11,640,000.

The smallest possible number of overseas visitors would be 11,550,000.

Step-by-step explanation:

The number 11,600,000 was rounded off to the nearest 100,000.

This means that either 0 or 1 was added to the figure with place value of 100,000.

It would be zero (0) in the case where the number after the 100,000th placed value number is lower than 5 and it would be one (1) in the case where the number after the 100,000th placed value is greater than or equal to 5.

Therefore, the largest possible number of overseas visitors would be 11,640,000.

The smallest possible number of overseas visitors would be 11,550,000.