58.6 rounded to the nearest whole number
If the decimal is 5 or more, the whole number is rounded up to the next whole number.
What do you think this whole number is?
To round a decimal number to the nearest whole number, you need to look at the digit immediately after the decimal point.
In this case, the number is 58.6. The digit after the decimal point is 6.
- If the digit after the decimal point is less than 5, you round down.
- If the digit after the decimal point is 5 or greater, you round up.
Since the digit after the decimal point is 6 (greater than 5), we round up.
Therefore, rounding 58.6 to the nearest whole number gives us: 59.