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Round 7.788 to the nearest hundredth.

User Liquidpie
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Answer:

7.79

Explanation:

A hundredth is the second number after the decimal. For example, in the number 100.234, the "3" would be the hundredth, the "2" would be the tenth, and the "4" would be the thousandth.

To round to the nearest hundredth, you have to look at the thousandth because when rounding, you look at the next number to decide whether to round up or down.

Since 8 is in the thousandth place in this question, and 8 is bigger than 5, you round up. So, you round the "8" in the hundredths place up to 9.

Therefore, you get 7.79.

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