Math Quiz: Comparing and Rounding Decimals

1. What is the FIRST step you should do when comparing decimals?

• Add zeros so each number has the same amount of decimal digits
• Compare each place value starting from the right
• Stack the numbers, lining up the decimals
• Compare each place value starting from the left

2. What is the correct symbol to answer this question: 3.99 ______ 4.1

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3. What is the correct symbol to answer this question: 2.250 ________ 2.25

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4. What is the correct symbol to answer this question: 6.867 __________ 6.687

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5. What is the correct symbol to answer this question: 4.921 _________ 4.912

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6. Which of the following numbers would be ROUNDED up? (Select ALL that apply)

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7. When rounding, how do you know when the number should go up or stay the same?

• Look at the digit to the left
• Look at the digit to the right

8. Round the following number to the nearest tenth: 9.73

9. Round the following number to the nearest hundredth: 1.345

10. Round the following number to the nearest whole number: 5.678