What is 2.50 litre to the nearest litre?

Answer 1

When rounding 2.50 liters to the nearest liter, you look at the digit in the tenths place, which is 5. Since 5 is equal to or greater than 5, you round up the number in the ones place. Therefore, 2.50 liters rounded to the nearest liter is 3 liters.

Answer 2

It is 2 litres.

Most schools wrongly teach you to always round 5 up (so the answer would be 3 litres) but, while this is a simple rule to teach, it is not really correct. Under this rule:

• if the following digit is 0 you don't round;

• if the following digit is 1, 2, 3 or 4 you round down; and

• if the following digit is 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 you round up.

As a result you are more likely to round up than round down and that introduces an upward bias into your calculations.

The IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) standard 754 is to round 5 up or down so that the new last digit is even. See link for more: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even

Answer 3

Well, darling, 2.50 liters rounded to the nearest liter is simply 3 liters. It's not rocket science, honey, just basic math. So, there you have it - 2.50 liters is 3 liters when you round it up.

Answer 4

3 L