Rounding a decimal to one decimal place

Difficulty Standard · Set doy168

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1
Round 6.771 to the nearest tenth.
2
Round 0.610 to the nearest tenth.
3
Round 4.978 to the nearest tenth.
4
Round 7.512 to the nearest tenth.
5
Round 7.212 to the nearest tenth.
6
Round 6.715 to the nearest tenth.
7
Round 2.536 to the nearest tenth.
8
Round 3.984 to the nearest tenth.
9
Round 9.027 to the nearest tenth.
10
Round 7.553 to the nearest tenth.
11
Round 6.166 to the nearest tenth.
12
Round 8.939 to the nearest tenth.
13
Round 7.670 to the nearest tenth.
14
Round 0.349 to the nearest tenth.
15
Round 6.810 to the nearest tenth.
16
Round 6.993 to the nearest tenth.
17
Round 9.137 to the nearest tenth.
18
Round 2.592 to the nearest tenth.
19
Round 6.207 to the nearest tenth.
20
Round 6.564 to the nearest tenth.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 0.132 to 9.99.
52% of them round down.
48% of them round up.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: a digit too many was kept.
Answers are a decimal.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 238 different ones, 99% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.