Question

there were 2,605 people at the basketball game. A reporter rounded this number to the nearest hundred for a newspaper article. what number did the reporter use?

Answer 1

I guess the reporter used the number 2,600

Answer 2

The answer would be 2,600

2 is in the thousands place
6 is in the hundreds place
0 is in the tens place
5 is in the ones place

Round to the nearest hundred the nearest hundred is 600
You round down because 605 is closest to 600