why is it standard practice in math to round up when 5 or greater.

Question

why is it standard practice in math to round up when 5 or greater.

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

Some people are confused here. There are some posters who seem to think there is an answer. There isn’t.

Let’s clarify this with an example. Let’s say you need to round a number to a even number.

So you get a 3. Do you round it to 2 or to 4?

See? it is completely arbitrary.