Question

What is the estimated difference?
Round each number to the nearest thousand before finding the difference.

5,714,688 – 327,149

Answer 1

5,714,688 rounded to the nearest thousand is
5,715,000

327,149 rounded to the nearest thousand is 
327,100

5,715,000
- 327,100
-----------------

5388000

Answer 2

5,714,688 rounds to 6,000,000 and 327,149 rounds to 300,000. So, 6,000,000-300,000 is 5,700,000