The height of a picture is 4.3 feet when rounded to the nearest tenth of a foot. What is the shortest possible height of the picture. Give answer to 3 decimal places
4.30
I think
4.250
anything less, say, 4.249 will round down to 2.2
To find the shortest possible height of the picture, we need to consider the rounding rule. When rounding to the nearest tenth of a foot, the general rule is to round up if the next digit is 5 or greater, and round down if the next digit is 4 or less.
In this case, we know that the height of the picture, when rounded to the nearest tenth, is 4.3 feet. To determine the shortest possible height, we need to consider the next digit after the tenths place.
The next digit after the tenths place in 4.3 is 0. Since the next digit is less than 5, we round down. Therefore, the shortest possible height of the picture is 4.3 feet.
So, the answer is 4.300 feet (rounded to 3 decimal places).