Question

The mass of a sewing needle is 0.585 gram.Round the mass to the nearest hundredth of a gram.

Answer 1

ANSWER
The mass of the needle to the nearest hundredth of a gram is


`0.59grams`

Step-by-step explanation

The mass of the sewing needle is

`0.585grams`

We want to round the mass of this needle to the nearest hundredth.

This is the same as rounding to two decimal places.

When we count to the right after the decimal point, the second decimal place falls on the 8. Therefore the hundredth digit is 8.

The the next digit after 8 is 5, so we need to round up to get,


`0.585 \approx0.59 \: to \: the \: neearest \: hundredth`