Round To The Nearest Tenth - Meaning, Rules, Examples, FAQs

Round to the Nearest Tenth

Round to the nearest tenth means to write the given decimal number up to one decimal place. This is done in such a way that after rounding off, there is one digit after the decimal point. In order to round to the nearest tenth, we need to look for the digit on the 'tenths' place and observe the digit towards its right in the given number. The position of the first digit after the decimal point is considered as the tenths place. Let us learn how to round to the nearest tenth and the rules associated with it.

1.	What is Round to the Nearest Tenth?
2.	Rules for Rounding to the Nearest Tenth
3.	How to Round to the Nearest Tenth?
4.	Round to the Nearest Tenth List
5.	FAQs on Rounding to the Nearest Tenth

What is Round to the Nearest Tenth?

To round a number to the nearest tenth, we need to look to the right of the tenths place, which is the hundredths place. If the digit in the hundredths place is 5 or greater than 5, we need to add one to the digit in the tenths place. If it is 4 or less than 4, the tenths place digit remains the same. All the digits to the right of the tenths place should be changed to 0. That means, while rounding off a number to the nearest tenth, we will stop the rounding at the tenths place.

For example, 7.57 can be rounded to 7.6 because the digit in the hundredths place is 7, which is greater than 5. Similarly, 3.592 would be rounded to 3.6, because the digit in the hundredths place is greater than 5.

Now, let us consider the case where the digit in the hundredths place is 4 or less than 4.

For example, 2.23 would be rounded to 2.2, because the digit in the hundredths place is 3, which is less than 5.

Rules for Rounding to the Nearest Tenth

When we round a decimal number to the nearest tenth, we need to follow a certain set of rules mentioned below.

• Observe the number that we need to round. This is the number in the tenths place, that is, the first number right after the decimal point.
• After marking the digit at the tenths place, observe the digit in the 'hundredths' place, which lies to the right of the digit in the tenths place.
• If the digit in the hundredths place is less than 5, the tenths place digit remains unchanged, and we write 0 in the hundredths place and in all the places to its right.
• If the digit in the hundredths place is 5 or greater than 5, we add 1 to the digit in the tenths place, that is, we increase the tenths place by 1 and write 0 in all the digits to the right.

Now, let us apply these rules and see how to round to the nearest tenth in the following section.

How to Round to the Nearest Tenth?

Let us consider an illustration to understand the calculation of rounding to the nearest tenth. We should remember the rule of adding 1 to the digit in the tenths place if the digit in the hundredths place is greater than or equal to 5. In case if it is less than 5, we can leave the digit in the tenths place as it is and place zero in the following numbers.

Example: Round 143.57 to the nearest tenth.

Solution: The first number towards the right of the decimal point is the tenths digit, which is 5 in this case. The second digit after the decimal point is 7 which is greater than 5. In this case, we need to add 1 to the digit 5.

Therefore, we get, 143.57 = 143.6

List of Numbers Rounded to the Nearest Tenth

Here is a list of a few numbers along with the number rounded to the nearest tenth for your reference.

Number	Round to the Nearest Tenth
1.05	1.1
1.18	1.2
1.25	1.3
1.39	1.4
1.66	1.7
1.67	1.7
1.98	2.0
11.74	11.7
11.52	11.5
1.87	1.9

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