Contemporary Mathematics for Business & Consumers 8th Edition by Robert Brechner,Geroge Bergeman

Exercise 122

You are responsible for writing a monthly stockholders' report about your company. Your boss has given you the flexibility to round the numbers to tens, hundreds, thousands, and so on, or not at all, depending on which is most beneficial for the company's image. For each of the following monthly figures, make a rounding choice and explain your reasoning.
a. 74,469-number of items manufactured______
b. $244,833-your department's net sales for the month______
c. 5,648-defective items manufactured______
d. $649,341-total company profit______
e. 149 new customers______