Arithmetic

How to solve

Find the digit in the target place, look one digit to its right, and round up when that digit is 5 or more.

Steps

  1. Locate the place you are rounding to (tens, hundreds, tenths, hundredths).
  2. Check the digit immediately to the right.
  3. If it is 5–9, add one to the target digit; otherwise keep it.
  4. Replace everything to the right with zeros (or drop it after a decimal point).

Example

Round 3.276 to the nearest hundredth.

  1. Hundredths digit is 7; the digit right of it is 6.
  2. 6 ≥ 5, so the 7 rounds up to 8.

Answer: 3.28

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