Places | Ones | Tenths | Hundredths | Thousandths | Ten Thousandths | Hundred Thousandths | Millionths | Ten Millionths | |
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1 | |||||||||
Number | 0 | . | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
Rounded Number | 0 | . | 1 | 5 |
- 4 is in the hundredths place and 8 is in the thousandths place
- Since the digit in the thousandths place (8) is greater than or equal to 5, add 1 to the digit in the hundredths place (4)
- 1 + 4 = 5, so the digit in the hundredths place becomes 5
- The digits to the right of the hundredths place are dropped
- 0.1481481 rounded to the nearest hundredth (two decimal places) = 0.15