Question

Round the decimal to the place of the underlined digit. 7.856. (the underline digit is 8). The rounded number is?

Answer 1

Let's begin by listing out the information given to us:

The number is 7.856

We are to round the decimal to the place of the underlined digit

The underlined digit is 8 (which is in the tenth place value)

The digit after 8 is 5. This means that we will round up the number (as shown below)

`7.856\approx7.9`

Hence, the number is 7.9