Question

The profits for a large international bank were $2 234 569 000. What is this number rounded to the nearest billion?

Answer 1

$2 234 569 000. is about two million

Answer 2

Answer:

2 000 000 000 (2 billion)

Step-by-step explanation:

To round to the nearest billion we take a look at the following number 234 569 000, in this case we have 2 hundred millions which is less than 500 million (minimum value to round up to 3 billion) so in this case we round this number to 2 billion.

Let's take another example to see when to round up: 2 534 569 000 would be rounded to 3 billion for example.