Question

A student wants to round the number 24.7835 entered in cell A5 to two decimal places. Which of these formulas can she use to do so?

1) ROUND(A5, 2)
2) TRUNC(A5, 2)
3) CEILING(A5, 2)
4) FLOOR(A5, 2)

Answer 1

To round the number 24.7835 to two decimal places in a spreadsheet, the ROUND(A5, 2) function should be used, as it correctly rounds the number to the specified number of decimal places.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student wants to round the number 24.7835, which is entered in cell A5, to two decimal places. Among the formulas listed, ROUND(A5, 2) is the correct choice for achieving this. The ROUND function in spreadsheets rounds a number to a specified number of decimal places. The first parameter is the number to round, and the second parameter is the number of decimal places.

Other functions mentioned, like TRUNC, CEILING, and FLOOR, have different specific uses:

• TRUNC removes the fractional part of the number, without rounding, up to the number of decimal places specified.
• CEILING rounds a number up to the nearest multiple of significance.
• FLOOR rounds a number down to the nearest multiple of significance.