What is the value of 0.1561 rounded to the nearest tenth

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The correct value of 0.1561 rounded to the nearest tenth is 0.2. To find this you need to correctly identify what the tenths place is. The tenths place is the digit two places to the right of the decimal point.

0.1561
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This is the tenths place digit

To find the correct rounded value of the number 0.1561 you need to look at the value of the digit just before the tenths place, which in this case happens to be the hundredths place.

0.1561
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This is the hundredths place

If the value of this number is 5 or greater then the tenths place is rounded up, but if the value of that number is 4 or lower then the tenths place is rounded down. So that means this number of 0.1561 is rounded up to 0.2.

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