round .44857 to the nearest hundreths?
.45
To round the number .44857 to the nearest hundredth, you need to look at the digit in the thousandth place, which is 5. If the digit in the thousandth place is 5 or greater, you round up; if it is less than 5, you round down.
In this case, since the digit in the thousandth place is 5, we round up. To do this, you increase the digit in the hundredth place by 1. Therefore, .44857 rounded to the nearest hundredth is .45.
To verify this, you can also use the rounding rule: If the digit in the thousandth place is 5, and there are no more digits after the hundredth place, the digit in the hundredth place remains the same if it is an even number, and it increases by 1 if it is an odd number. In the given number, the digit in the hundredth place is 4, which is an even number, so it remains the same. Therefore, the rounded number is .45.