Question

2.549 miles can be rounded to 3 miles and 2.5 miles.Explain how its true.

Answer 1

You can either round it up to the tenths place or you can use the tenths place to round the 2 up to 3.

Answer 2

If you round 2.549 miles to 3, you are rounding it to the nearest ones place(whole number). 2.549 rounded to the nearest tenth, however, is 2.5 because 2.549 is being rounded to the tenth decimal place.

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