Round 0.5959 to the nearest thousandth?

1 Answer
Mar 30, 2018

#0.596#

Explanation:

The first step is to determine where the thousandths place is. Here is a chart as a refresher:
http://www.coolmath.com/prealgebra/02-decimals/01-decimals-place-value-01

So, looking at your number, we can determine that this is the thousandths place that we are rounding to:

#0.59color(red)"5"9#

To round you are going to look the number just to the right of the number you are rounding. So we're looking at #9#.

#0.59color(red)"5"color(blue)9#

If the number to the right is
#0-4# you stay the #"same"#
#5-9# you round #"up"#

Since the number to the right is #9#, we are going to round up:

#0.59color(red)"5"9 rarr 0.59color(red)6#