Fruits and Vegetables Henry recorded how many pounds of fruits and vegetables his family bought during the past two months. 1. Pick four fruits and list them in the table below. Part A Round each fruit's weight to the nearest 0.1 pound. Write the rounded weight in the next column. Fruit Rounded Weight (lb) Fruit Rounded Weight (lb) DATA apples 2.068 blueberries 1.07 lemons 1.031 oranges 3.502 Part B peaches 2.608 Explain how you rounded the weights of the fruits. pears 3.592
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For the first fruit, blueberries, the weight is 20.48 pounds. Since the digit in the hundredth place is 4, which is less than 5, we round down to the nearest tenth. Show moreā¦
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