home | contact
 

Approximation Methods

Decimal places (d.p.) - part three

Exercise 3

Round off to one decimal place:

a)  0.465

Solution:
0.465 is 0.5 to one decimal place because the key digit is 6 which is greater than 5 and therefore we round up.

b)  5.875 is 
c)  4.625 is 
d)  0.0853 is 
e)  24.00125 is 
f)  0.865 is 
g)  65.72 is 
h)  83.21 is 
i)  7.965 is 
j)  5.735 is