18.5625 rounded to nearest hundredth

Answer 1

The hundredths place is the second digit after the decimal. Thus, we are deciding whether to keep the 6 in 18.5625 as a 6 or round it up to a 7. To do this, we look to the next place (in this case the thousandths place) and find a 2. Because 2 is less than 5, we round down, keeping the 6 and removing all following digits.

Thus are answer becomes 18.56.