Many situations will call for you to round decimals to the nearest tenth to make the number easier to work with. Once you understand how to find the tenths and hundredths place, the process is very similar to rounding whole numbers.
Step-by-step explanation:
Many situations will call for you to round decimals to the nearest tenth to make the number easier to work with. Once you understand how to find the tenths and hundredths place, the process is very similar to rounding whole numbers.
The value I remember for pi is 3.14159. This is rounded to the nearest 10-thousandth. Another way of saying the same thing is that it is "rounded to 5 decimal places".
pi--rounded off in decreasing precision:
3.14159
3.1416
3.142
3.14
3.1
3
Watch out for a trap in rounding:
Suppose I start with 5.49. To the nearest 10th, it would be 5.5. To the nearest whole digit, it is 5, not 6. If the original number were 5.51, then rounded to the nearest whole digit would be 6.
