Question

What is 0.3172 rounded to the nearest tenth?

Answer 1

Answer: 0.3171 rounded to the nearest tenth is 0.3.

Explanation:

Follow these steps for rounding the decimal number 0.3171 to the nearest tenth (one decimal place):

Find the tenth digit, = 3 in the 0.3171.

Find the digit immediately to the right of the tenth place. If this number is greater than or equal to 5, round up; otherwise, round down.

= 1 in the 0.3171

Because 1 is less than 5, the tenth position digit 3 remains constant.

Remove all digits to the right of the rounding digit and rewrite the number.

As a result, 0.3171 rounded to the nearest tenth is 0.3.

Answer 2

0.3172 rounded to the nearest tenth would be 0.3.

This is because you would first look at the number in the tenths place which is 3.

Then you would look to the number to the right to determine if you would round up or down.

If the number in the hundredths place is bellow 5, the number would remain the same, and if it were above 5, it would round up by one number.

If the number were 5, you would look to the number in the thousandths place and then go from there.

Since the number in the hundredths place is 1, then you will ignore the other numbers to the right and, you would have a result of 0.3.

Explanation:

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