Question

32.443 rounded to the nearest hundredth

Answer 1

The answer would be 32.44 because the 3 is smaller than 5, therefore closer to 40 than 50.

Answer 2

The digit place to the right of the hundredths digit is the thousandths place. The digit in that place is less than 5, so that digit and all to its right can be dropped. Your rounded number is

... 32.44

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Had the thousanths place digit been 5 or greater, you would have increased the hundredths-place digit by 1 before dropping digits to its right.