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Applying the Decimal Rounding Procedure in Shipping Logs
An inventory coordinator at a local distribution center is weighing a shipment pallet of electronics accessories, and the digital scale displays a reading of exactly {}15.2175 kilograms. The company's logging standards require all recorded weights to be rounded to the nearest hundredth. Recall the four-step decimal rounding procedure and explain in detail how to apply it to round {}15.2175 to the nearest hundredth. In your response, clearly state which digit is in the hundredths place, identify the digit immediately to its right, explain how you compare that digit to 5, and provide the final correctly rounded weight value.
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Applying the Decimal Rounding Procedure in Shipping Logs