LOL! Like I said, close is good enough. Lord help us.
It makes no sense. If they were to round the numbers correctly they would have the correct answer.
Significant figures. There is no decimal point in either number so have to assume that both were measured to 3 significant figures. A “ball park” estimate is not the same thing.
They are confusing apples and oranges.
I rounded both numbers up to the nearest thousand and got 2,000. Just as valid in this instance.
I can’t wait until the kids taking this kind of math start building infrastructure in America.
Idiocracy was a documentary.