Thread: divide. round answer to 2 decimal places

Please could you help me with all the steps necessary to do this sum ?

Divide 621 over 0.31 and round the answer to 2 decimal places.

Thanks

Originally Posted by wolf boy

Please could you help me with all the steps necessary to do this sum ?

Divide 621 over 0.31 and round the answer to 2 decimal places.

Thanks

Now do your division.

I get 2003.2258064516

Now, the third decimal place is a 5, and there are numbers past this. So by the way I was taught, we round up the second decimal place:


(If it had turned out to be exactly 2003.225 I would round down to 2003.22.)

-Dan