Question

What is 29.25 rounded to the nearest one?

What is 29.25 rounded to the nearest ten?

Answer 1

Do you know the rules for rounding?

Answer 2

What is in the one place? what is in the tens place?

Answer 3

no

Answer 4

when rounding, any number that youre trying to round to, if it is 5 or higher, you round the number to the left of it up one. if it is 4 or lower, the entire number stays the same

Answer 5

So with that information - what is the value in the ones place? ten place?

Answer 6

in this case, 29.25 to round to the nearest tenth, (the tenth place being the 2 in .25) we look at the 5, since its a "5 or higher #" we round the number to the left of it up one number, so it becomes 29.3

Answer 7

@Tessa_Mae - be careful that is not correct...

Answer 8

rounding to nearest one 29.25
the 9 is in the one place.
so look at the number to the right of it - which is a 2. This is smaller than 5 so we leave it, thus the answer is 29

Answer 9

@levie I would like you to tell me what value is in the tens place...

Answer 10

i said tenths place, not ones

Answer 11

30.00

Answer 12

using it as an example to see if they understood the concept and could try to find the answer to their question on their own

Answer 13

Yes that is correct, do you understand the concept @levie ?

Answer 14

yes thank both of you.

Answer 15

@JuanitaM what i said was correct. i was giving an example. not giving away the answer.

Answer 16

@Tessa_Mae the reason I wanted you to caution was that I asked what was in the tens and in the one place...putting "tenth" in your example could confuse someone if they are really just learning basic concept. Maybe a suggestion to you would be to use a bigger whole number and stay on the left side of the decimal until you are confident that they understand the basics first. Yes, I saw exactly what you were doing...but maybe Levie did not and would think your "tenth" answer was her "ten" answer....That is all! Happy studies to all

Answer 17

That is why i put in parentheses ( the 2 in .25) just to clarify what i meant by the word "tenth" to avoid confusion, but i appreciate your concern, have a nice day. @JuanitaM