Rounding Numbers
Rounding Numbers
Rounding Numbers
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Many times when using decimals or even whole numbers, you have to do some rounding up or down, since the
answer needs to be to a certain number of decimal places. One good example of this is money, where we only
need two decimal places for the cents.
Rounding off isn’t difficult; you just need to follow the rules:
Answer: 6.4
Odds and evens rule Evens Rule Example 2: Round to two decimal places
EVEN: If the last This is the last digit to be This is the first digit to be
retained digit is even, retained, which is even dropped which a 5 followed by
its value is not no other digits
changed, the 5 and
any zeros that follow
are dropped. 7.485 The 5 is dropped
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