Round to the Nearest Foot Calculator

Use this Round to the Nearest Foot Calculator to round of your foot length to the nearest whole number.

What is a Round to the Nearest Foot Calculator?

Round to the nearest foot calculator is an online rounding calculator that helps the user to round off the foot to its nearest whole number.

Round to the nearest foot calculator has huge usage in construction activities. Suppose, a carpenter needs to make a table of dimension 6.30 ft long and 4.20 ft wide. Then, when he go to the shop to buy the wood, he will not ask the shopkeeper to give 6.30 x 4.20 ft wood, instead he will first round off the length and then ask for the new dimesnions.

This will save him a lot of time, money, and resources, and he will also be generating the least amount of waste.

How to Use the the Round to the Nearest Foot Calculator?

1. Visit the Round to the Nearest Foot Calculator page
2. Enter the value in the input field
3. Click on the ‘Calculate’ button. This will round off the entered value to the nearest ones, tens, and hundreds place and display the result to you
4. For a new calculation, simply press the ‘Reset’ button

How to Round Off to the Nearest Foot?

Rounding to the nearest foot follows the same rule of rounding off any integer.

Rounding to the Nearest Foot

• If the decimal part is less than 0.5, round down to the nearest whole foot (e.g. – 14.3 after rounding becomes 14)
• If the decimal part is 0.5 or greater, round up to the nearest whole foot (17.62 after rounding becomes 18)

Rounding to the Nearest Tens

• If the digit in the ones place is less than 5, round down to the nearest tens value (e.g. – 43 after rounding becomes 40)
• If the digit in the ones place is 5 or greater than 5, round up to the nearest tens value (e.g. – 67 after rounding becomes 70)

Rounding to the Nearest Hundreds

• If the digit in the tens place is less than 5, round down to the nearest hundred value (e.g. – 132 after rounding becomes 100)
• If the digit in the tens place is 5 or greater, round up to the nearest hundred value (e.g. – 270 after rounding becomes 300)

Example

Example: Round 24.752 to the nearest feet?

Here, the decimal value 0.752 is greater than 5, therefore, we’ll round up the foot value.

Rounded to the Nearest Foot = 25 ft

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Reference

• Rules of Rounding Numbers Retrieved from “Rounding Numbers – Rules, Examples for Rounding Numbers (cuemath.com)“

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