Question

Round 0.5959 to the nearest thousandth?

Answer 1

`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`