Question

What is 45.8974 rounded to the nearest thousandth?

Answer 1

`45.897`.

Explanation:

To round a number to the nearest thousandth, first forget all of the numbers left on the thousandths place. So forget the `45.89`. Look at the 7. What number is to the right of it? A `4`, right? Since 4 is less than 5, you round down, and simply get rid of the four and every digit to the right of it. So your final answer is 45.897.

Answer 2

Number rounded to thousandth digit will have a value

`color(blue)(45.897`

Explanation:

Given Number is : `45.8974`

To round it up to the nearest thousandth place.

From the table above, thousandth digit is 7 whilst the ten-thousandth digit is 4. Since 4 is less than 5, no addition to be made to thousandth digit.

Hence the number rounded to thousandth digit will have a value

`color(blue)(45.897`