SOLUTION: round to nearest 1000th -0.3898

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Question 208403: round to nearest 1000th -0.3898
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Answer by HyperBrain(694) About Me  (Show Source):
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-0.3898
the preceding number is 8 -- which is greater than 5-- so round up to:
-0.4

Answer by MathTherapy(10552) About Me  (Show Source):
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round to nearest 1000th -0.3898
To the nearest thousandths means that we need to have this number to 3 decimal places.

As the fourth digit, 8, is greater than 5, we need to ROUND UP the previous digit, 9. However, this number when ROUND UP gives us 0, which means that we need to ROUND UP the next preceding digit which is 8.

This therefore makes this number highlight_green%28-0.390%29