A petrol price works out at 3.899 per gallon, but the till charges only to the nearest cent. The final price must therefore be:
AReversed
BRecorded
CRounded
DRepeated
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Rounded
1. Money cannot be paid in fractions of a cent.
2. The extra digit has to be resolved one way or the other.
3. The final price is rounded to the nearest cent.
_Source: OpenStax Prealgebra 2e, Chapter 5, Decimals._
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