How do you round 702.9 to the nearest hundred?

Answer 1

Oh, dude, rounding 702.9 to the nearest hundred is like deciding if you want to hang out at 700 or 800. So, since 702.9 is closer to 700 than 800, you just drop the decimal and end up with 700. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!

Answer 2

To round 702.9 to the nearest hundred, you would look at the digit in the hundreds place, which is 7. The digit to the right of the hundreds place is 0. Since 0 is less than 5, you would keep the hundreds place digit the same and change all digits to the right of the hundreds place to 0. Therefore, rounding 702.9 to the nearest hundred would give you 700.

Answer 3

To round off a number to the nearest hundred, consider the portion of the number that

is less than a hundred.

In this example there are no "Tens" so the portion less than a hundred is 2.9 (or 02.9).

Is 2.9 nearer to 0.0 than it is to 100.0 ?

2.9 is nearer to 0.0 so the main number is rounded down, effectively replacing the portion less than a hundred with the "100" to which it is nearer.

702.9 to the nearest 100 is 700.0

If the original number had been 752.9 then 52.9 is nearer to 100 than it is to 0.00

752.9 to the nearest 100 is therefore 800.

Answer 4

Well, honey, you take a good look at that 702.9 and see that the 9 is telling you to round up. So you add 1 to the hundreds place and turn that 702.9 into a nice, round 800. Ta-da!