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document.write( "609.006 rounded to hundredths is 609.01 because the thousandths place\r\n" );
document.write( "was 6, which is 5 or more, so we increase the 0 in the hundredths place\r\n" );
document.write( "by 1, and drop the 6 in the thousandths place.\r\n" );
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document.write( "However, if your problem had been 609.004, then when rounded to hundredths\r\n" );
document.write( "it would be 609.00 because the thousandths place was 4, which is less than\r\n" );
document.write( "5, so we leave the 0 in the hundredths place as 0, and drop the 4 in the\r\n" );
document.write( "thousandths place.\r\n" );
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