Question

Round to 0.173 to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

When rounding to the hundredth, you must look at the thousandths place. In this case the thousandths place is less than 5 so it rounds down to 0, making the rounding .17

Answer 2

Answer: 0.17

Explanation:

The given numeric value = 0.173

Here , 1 is at tenth place.

7 is at hundredth place.

3 is at thousandth place.

In order to round off the number (0.173) to the nearest hundredth, we need do check the digit at thousandth place i.e. 3.

Since 3 is near to 0, so we round of 0.173 to 0.170 , so that 0.17 will be the required number .

Hence, we get 0.17 after rounding off 0.173 to the nearest hundredth.