Round 5.71 to the nearest whole number

6 would be the answer because is the tenths place is 4 or less it stays at 5 if it is 5 or more you bump it up to 6.

In the decimal 5.71 the whole number is 5 so we must round to get rid of the following decimal places. Since we know anything 5 and higher can be rounded up and the decimal is. 7 we can round to 6 so the answer rounded is 6