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Round Whole Numbers Round Whole Numbers What is rounding? Rounding means changing a given number to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, and so on. When rounding a number, look at the place value of the number and what multiples it is between. Rounding Rules: Rule 1:If the number to the right of the place you are rounding is less than 5 round to the lower multiple. Rule 2:If the number to the right of the place you are rounding is 5 or greater, round to the higher multiple. Examples: 462 - 400 or 500 Answer: 500 432 - 400 or 500 Answer: 400 452 - 400 or 500 Answer: 500 Know More About :- Vertically Opposite Angles

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How to Round Whole Numbers Step 1: Choose the place value that you want to round a number to - meaning the 10's, 100's, 1 000's or another place value. ie: Round 6 458 to the nearest hundred - In this case we are rounding to the hundred's place. Step 2: Decide what two multiples the number you are rounding is between. ie: We are rounding to the hundred's place so we would choose multiples of 100. So: 6 458 is between 6 400 and 6 500 Step 3: Look to the digit in the place immediately right of the place you are rounding to and use the rounding rules to decide whether you move it up to the higher multiple or round to the lower multiple. ie: Look in the ten place of the number 6 458. We see a 5, so we must round to the higher number. Number rounding is done only to simplify the calculations and it make it easier to understand the expressions. Number rounding gives the less accurate value in comparison to the actual value but it becomes easy to understand How to Round Whole Numbers and Decimals that gives the answer in less time and in very easy way. Rounding the numbers have some basic rules for rounding that is not a actual number but rounded number is very close to its actual number. The rules of rounding numbers are as defined that can help you to determine How to Round Whole Numbers and Decimals. when we say round the number to third place or round the number for the second place it means First of all decide the number of places in the given value you want to keep. After choosing the number of digits to keep into the number that is rounded, finalize what is the next digit of number means digit is less than five or greater than five. When the digit if it is less than five than leave the digits after it and If the next digit is equal to or greater than five than increase one in the previous digit . Read More About :- Types of Quadrilateral

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