Question

Round.to the nearest tenth 99.49

Answer 1

You want to round 9,949 to the nearest tens place. The tens place in your number is shown by the bold and underlined digit below:

9,949

To round 9,949 to the nearest tens place...

The digit in the tens place in your number is the 4. To begin the rounding, look at the digit one place to the right of the 4, or the 9, which is in the ones place.

Since the 9 is greater than or equal to 5, we'll round our number up by

Adding 1 to the 4 in the tens place, making it a 5.
Changing all digits to the right of this new 5 into zeros.

The result is: 9,950.

So, 9,949 rounded to the tens place is 9,950.

Answer 2

The 4 is in the tenths column. Now the number 9 is actually is the hundredths column, however, ten hundredths would amount to a tenth and nine hundredths is almost a tenth, therefore you'd round the figure above to the nearest tenth likewise:

99.49 ---> 99.50 ---> 99.5