Question

102.94848 rounded to the nearest thousandth.

Answer 1

How many do you think is the thousandth?
:)

Answer 2

????

Answer 3

.9 would be the tenth. so what would .94 be?

Answer 4

what is 10 times 10?

Answer 5

come on @monroemoemoe .... you can do this :)

Answer 6

100

Answer 7

So then, when it is .94, it would be called the _______th power?

Answer 8

102.948
102.9 would be to the tenth place
102.94 would be to the hundreth place
so 102.948 is to the thousandth place

Answer 9

And so on. Each one increases by folds of 10. 0, 10th, 100th, 1000th, 10000th....etc.

Answer 10

@monroemoemoe that should answer it, but if it doesn't make sense yet, ask about what confuses you... you have good help in @justicebeaver and @jessip12

Answer 11

ok thank you.

Answer 12

102.94848 thsi is the trick I do for rounding

put a 1 under the decimal and a 0 for every number until you have written 10000

102.94848
10000 the alst zer is at 4 right? so round the 4 to 5 because the next number is 8