Question

Alex is mailing an envelope that weighs 0.346 pound. What is the weight of the envelope mailing to the nearest hundredth?

Answer 1

The weight of the envelope to the nearest hundredth is `0.35` pound.

Explanation:

To round any number to the nearest desired position, one should first mark the position, to which number is to be rounded.

Here we have to round `0.346` to nearest hundredth and we have `4` in that position, we write it as

`0.346`
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Here we have placed a red arrow pointing to `4` and between next digit `6`.

As the latter part is `6` and is `5` or more (i.e. more than half of thee hundredth to which we have to round),

hence, we can round `0.346` as `0.350`

Note Had it been less than `500`, we would have just omitted it and it would have been rounded to `0.340`.