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The speed of a Dragonfly is 6.974 Mark said that the speed of a dragonfly rounded to the nearest tenth was 6.9 meters per second. Is he correct? If not, what is his error?
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The speed of a Dragonfly is 6.974

Mark said that the speed of a dragonfly rounded to the nearest tenth was 6.9 meters per second. Is he correct? If not, what is his error?

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He is not correct, any number 5 or greater rounds the number up.
The speed of the dragonfly would be 7 because 7 rounds 9 to 10 making 6 a 7.
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