Question

whats is 96.3cm measured to the nearest tenth of a cm?

Answer 1

Answer is

=95cm.

Because after decimal there is 3, so the number is lesser than 96 e.i. 95 is considered to the nearest tenth of a cm.

Answer 2

The nearest tenth of a cm of 96.3 cm will be 100 cm.

• The tenths of a cm are 10cm,20cm,30cm etc.

• Similarly,the nearest two tenths of 96.3 are 90cm and 100cm.

• Now, according to the rule,we should choose the number which has the minimum amount of difference from the given number. (The difference can be both negative and positive,we just look upon the numerical value here)

• Here, from 90 the difference is 6.3 and from 100 the difference is 3.7.

• Now,for the case of 100,the difference is minimum and that's why we consider the 100 as the nearest tenth value of 96.3.