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Nancy filled her car with gas before she went to work. She put 12.394 gallons of gas in her car. About how many gallons of gas did Nancy put in her car, to the nearest tenth of a gallon?

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The correct answer is 12.14 gallons of gas!

User Daerik
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Answer:

12.4 gallons of gas

Explanation:

The tenth is the first digit to the right of the decimal point. When it says to round to the nearest tenth, your answer should have one digit to the right of the decimal point. So, to round, you take digit to the right of the digit it says to round to. Determine whether the digit is equal or greater than five, or equal or less than 4. If it is equal or greater than 5, round up and bump up the digit to the left of it and delete all other digits to the right of the decimal point. If it is equal or less than 4, simply delete all digits to the left of the decimal point. Hope this helps! :)

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