{"id":170986,"date":"2024-11-20T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=170986"},"modified":"2024-11-20T07:13:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:13:26","slug":"what-is-17-318-rounded-to-the-nearest-hundredth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/20\/what-is-17-318-rounded-to-the-nearest-hundredth\/","title":{"rendered":"What is 17.318 rounded to the nearest hundredth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is 17.318 rounded to the nearest hundredth<br>A. 17.31<br>B. 17.32<br>C. 17.3<br>D. 17.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>B. 17.32<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To round the number 17.318 to the nearest hundredth, we need to follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Identify the place value<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the number 17.318, the digit in the hundredths place is <strong>1<\/strong> (this is the second digit after the decimal point).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The digit in the thousandths place, which comes after the hundredths place, is <strong>8<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Determine how to round<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When rounding to the nearest hundredth, we look at the digit in the thousandths place (the third digit after the decimal point).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the digit in the thousandths place is <strong>5<\/strong> or greater, we round the digit in the hundredths place <strong>up<\/strong> by 1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the digit in the thousandths place is less than <strong>5<\/strong>, we leave the digit in the hundredths place unchanged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Apply the rule<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In this case, the digit in the thousandths place is <strong>8<\/strong>, which is greater than 5.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Therefore, we round the digit in the hundredths place (which is 1) <strong>up<\/strong> by 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Final result<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The rounded value is <strong>17.32<\/strong>. This is the correct value when 17.318 is rounded to the nearest hundredth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why not the other options?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A. 17.31<\/strong>: This would be the result if the thousandths place was less than 5, but since the thousandths place is 8, we round up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>C. 17.3<\/strong>: This would be the result if we were rounding to the nearest tenth, not hundredth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>D. 17.4<\/strong>: This would result from rounding to the nearest tenth, but we are rounding to the nearest hundredth, so this is not applicable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the correct rounded value of 17.318 to the nearest hundredth is <strong>17.32<\/strong>, making the correct answer <strong>B<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is 17.318 rounded to the nearest hundredthA. 17.31B. 17.32C. 17.3D. 17.4 The Correct Answer and Explanation is: The correct answer is B. 17.32. Explanation: To round the number 17.318 to the nearest hundredth, we need to follow these steps: Why not the other options? Thus, the correct rounded value of 17.318 to the nearest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}