Prealgebra (7th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321955048
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Chapter 5 - Test - Page 405: 9

Answer

$\approx$ 0.862

Work Step by Step

When it comes to place value names to the right of the decimal point, they are (in order from left to right): tenths, hundredths, thousandths. To round to the thousandths place, we must first identify the number that is in the thousandths place. As the thousandths place is the third place from the decimal point, we can see that the number in the thousandths place is 2: 0.8623 To round, we must therefore look to the next number to its right: 3. As this digit is less than five, we do not need to round up the number in this thousandths place. Therefore, 0.8623 rounds to $\approx$ 0.862.
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