Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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5. Estimating Quantities
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Exercise 19 Page 347

Round the given decimal number to the nearest 0.00001.

4* 10^(- 5)

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. 0.00003946 Let's start by rounding the given number to the nearest 0.0000 1. Since the digit in the millionths place is greater than 5, we will modify the digit in the ${\color{#A800DD}{\text{hundred-}}} {\color{#A800DD}{\text{thousandths}}} {\color{#A800DD}{\text{place}}}.'"`UNIQ--MLMath-4-QINU`"' Finally, we will write the above number as the product of a single digit and a power of10.To do so, let's first factor out4.$
0.00004
4* 0.00001
4* 10^(- 5)