What is 26.5 rounded to the nearest hundredth?

Remember your Number system After the decimal point to the right, the next digit is the TENTH, and next is HUNDREDTH.
So for 26.5 = 26.500. The tenth digit is 5, and the Hundredth is 0. After the hundredth digit which is 0, the next digit is also 0. The second 0 is not up to 5, so we would not add to the first zero. (Was it 5, or above, we would have added 1 to first zero)
So the answer is 26.50 . If the next digit after the hundredth digit was 5 or more the answer would have been 26.51.
But for this question the answer is 26.50 to the nearest hundredth. Cheers.

Answered by olemakpadu | 2024-06-10

The number 26.5, when rounded to the nearest hundredth, remains 26.50.
To round 26.5 to the nearest hundredth, we should look at the digit in the thousandths place. However, since 26.5 has no digits beyond the tenths place, it is already at the precision of the nearest tenth, and there is no number in the thousandths place to consider for rounding. Therefore, the number 26.5, when rounded to the nearest hundredth, remains 26.50. The addition of the zero indicates that we have considered it to the hundredths place even though no rounding was necessary.

Answered by SumeraAshfaq | 2024-06-24

When rounding 26.5 to the nearest hundredth, we look at the hundredths place, which is 0. Since there are no digits in the thousandths place to influence a round up, the answer remains 26.50.
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Answered by olemakpadu | 2024-11-04