What is 29,504 rounded to the nearest thousand?

1. Locate the thousands place in 29,504, which holds the digit 9. 2. Look at the digit to its right, which is 5. 3. Since 5 is greater than or equal to 5, add 1 to the thousands digit: 9 + 1 = 10. 4. That 10 carries into the ten thousands place, turning 2 ten thousands into 3 ten thousands and resetting the thousands digit to 0. 5. Replacing the remaining digits with zeros gives 30,000. 6. 29,000 comes from rounding down instead of up, and 29,500 comes from rounding to the nearest hundred instead of the nearest thousand. _Source: OpenStax Prealgebra (CC BY 4.0), Ch 1 "Whole Numbers", section 1.1 Introduction to Whole Numbers_