So I have 18.54885775
Should I round it to 18.6 or 18.5?
It's .04885775 away from 18.5, or .05114225 away from 18.6
So while it's obviously closer to 18.5, why am I told to round it to 18.6?
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In this case I need to round to the tenths
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thanks for helping me out Flood
[Edited on 01.08.2013 12:21 AM PST]
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I've been told in most of my math classes to use two decimal places. You would end up with 18.55 because the 8 in the thousandths place causes the 4 in the hundredths place to round up to 5.