Write 197768 to the nearest thousand ?

198,000

Step-by-step explanation:

Numbers can be rounded up to the nearest thousand, hundreds or ten, it can also be rounded up to 1 decimal place, two decimal place, 3 decimal place, etc or also to significant figures, as the case may be.

When rounding up figures, numbers 1 to 4 are rounded up to 0, while numbers 5 to 9 are rounded up to 1 of the concerned digit.

In the question above, we have 197,768, to be rounded up to the nearest thousand.

The thousand digit is 7, the number before it, which is the hundred digit is the next 7. That 7 will be rounded up to 1, and then added to the digit 7 thousand. To make it 8 thousand.

Hence we have

198,000