Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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5. Estimating Quantities
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Exercise 3 Page 344

Round the given decimal number to the nearest 0.0001.

4* 10^(- 4)

Practice makes perfect
We want to round the given decimal number and write the result as the product of a single digit and a power of 10. 0.000384509 Let's start by rounding the given number to the nearest 0.000 1. Since the digit in the hundred-thousandths place is greater than 5, we will modify the digit in the ${\color{#A800DD}{\text{ten-}}} {\color{#A800DD}{\text{thousandths}}} {\color{#A800DD}{\text{place}}}.'"`UNIQ--MLMath-4-QINU`"' Finally we will write the above number as the product of a single digit and a power of10.To do so, let's first factor out4.$
0.0004
4* 0.0001
4* 10^(- 4)