Question

what is the answer for 0.232 rounded to the nearest tenth?

Answer 1

Which digit is the tenths place?

Answer 2

3

Answer 3

no, that's the hundredths place

Answer 4

the place values go like this


... hundreds tens units . tenths hundredths thousandths ...

Answer 5

so the .2 is in the tenth so the answer is .22

Answer 6

the first 2 is in the tenths place, so look at the next number: is that greater than or equal to 5?

Answer 7

less than

Answer 8

less than, so round down ;-)

Answer 9

so you simply drop everything after that tenths digit

Answer 10

and leave the number alone

Answer 11

aka. truncate the remaining digits

Answer 12

than .2 is the correct answer?

Answer 13

yes, 0.2 is the correct answer

Answer 14

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