It means to find an amount in dollars - without cents - that is closer, to the specified value, than any other whole amount of dollars. For example: to round $2.60 to the nearest dollar, the answer is $3.00. The difference in this case is $0.40; if you choose any other whole number of dollars, the difference will be greater than that.
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If your figure is expressed in dollars, that's like rounding to the nearest whole number.
$243.75 rounds to $244.00
Yes, it can be done.
$50.00
Well, honey, if you want to round 6.32 to the nearest dollar, you simply look at the cents. Since 32 cents is less than 50 cents, you round down. So, 6.32 rounded to the nearest dollar is 6 dollars. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
To round 18.25 to the nearest dollar, you would look at the hundredths place, which is the 5 in this case. Since 5 is greater than or equal to 5, you would round up the tenths place to 2+1=3. Therefore, 18.25 rounded to the nearest dollar is 19.
$14.93 would round up to $15.00