Question

How do you round off 28.25008 to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

Hint: In order to solve this question we need to see the number just beside the right of it and then if the right side number is more than 5 or less 5 than we will increase it by one number while if the number is less 5 than we will keep the number same.

Complete step by step answer:
For solving this question we need to study one concept of rounding off the number and we will solve this question accordingly:
- Let the number be 1344.50 and we want to round off it to the nearest tenth, so the question is telling to round off 5 to 6 or keep it as it is let us explore it;
- As we can see that the number which is at right just behind it is 0 so we can say that it will not be changing if it was 5 or more than 5 then it would be changed.
- Now coming to our original question as the number in question is given to us is 28.25008 and it is asked to round it off to the nearest tenth so we will look the number just beside right of it so which is 5 as per the rule if the number is 5 or greater than 5 then the number which is to be rounded off will be increased by one while if the number would have been less than 5 so the number will kept same.

So our final answer will be 28.3.

Note: Rounding off is a type of estimation. Estimation is used in everyday life and also in subjects like Mathematics and Physics. Many physical quantities like the amount of money, distance covered, length measured, etc are estimated by rounding off the actual number to the nearest possible whole number.