Round to the Nearest 5
Rounding to the nearest 5 snaps a number to a multiple of five: 47 becomes 45, and 48 becomes 50. This is the grid behind modern cash rounding — Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe round cash totals to the nearest 5 cents since their smallest coins were withdrawn — and the same step is used for quick estimates, five-minute time billing and scoring bands. All values on this page use standard half-up rounding.
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What this tool does
Rounding to the nearest 5 snaps a number to a multiple of five: 47 becomes 45, and 48 becomes 50. This is the grid behind modern cash rounding — Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe round cash totals to the nearest 5 cents since their smallest coins were withdrawn — and the same step is used for quick estimates, five-minute time billing and scoring bands. All values on this page use standard half-up rounding.
How to use the Round to the Nearest 5
- Check Number to round: 47.
- Check Round to: nearest.
- Check Nearest multiple of: 5.
- Review the Round to the Nearest 5 result and its exact-value comparison table.
- Verify assumptions before applying the result.
Formula
Round half up at the chosen precision: decimal places count digits after the point, significant figures count digits that carry meaning from the first nonzero digit, and nearest-multiple rounding snaps to a grid such as the nearest 100.
- x
- Number to round
- mode
- Round to
- places
- Decimal places
- figs
- Significant figures
- multiple
- Nearest multiple of
Ties round half up (away from zero for the magnitude shown in most school contexts); financial rounding rules such as banker's rounding are not applied.
Worked example
Round to the Nearest 5: Number to round = 47; Round to = nearest; Nearest multiple of = 5. Rounding to the nearest 5 snaps a number to a multiple of five: 47 becomes 45, and 48 becomes 50. This is the grid behind modern cash rounding — Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe round cash totals to the nearest 5 cents since their smallest coins were withdrawn — and the same step is used for quick estimates, five-minute time billing and scoring bands. All values on this page use standard half-up rounding.
Inputs
- Number to round47
- Round toNearest multiple
- Decimal places2
- Significant figures3
- Nearest multiple of5
Result
- Rounded value45
- Multiple used5
Round to the Nearest 5 — worked examples
| Number | Rounded |
|---|---|
| 41 | 40 |
| 42 | 40 |
| 42.5 | 45 |
| 47 | 45 |
| 48 | 50 |
| 97 | 95 |
| 98 | 100 |
| 123 | 125 |
Results explained
- Rounded value
- Rounded value from the formula above. Ties round half up (away from zero for the magnitude shown in most school contexts); financial rounding rules such as banker's rounding are not applied.
- Decimal places
- Decimal places from the formula above. Ties round half up (away from zero for the magnitude shown in most school contexts); financial rounding rules such as banker's rounding are not applied.
Frequently asked questions
Rounding to the nearest 5 snaps a number to a multiple of five: 47 becomes 45, and 48 becomes 50. The reference table on this page shows 8 worked examples computed with exactly that rule.
A value ending exactly halfway, such as 47.5, rounds up to 50 under half-up rounding; values like 42.5 round to 45.
Use it for cash totals in penny-free countries, rough stock counts, five-unit pricing and anywhere a one-unit step is false precision.
47 rounds to 45. You can verify it in the table on this page, or type any other value into the calculator above.
Canada stopped distributing pennies in 2013 and rounds cash totals to the nearest 5 cents; Australia and New Zealand did the same when they withdrew their smallest coins, and several eurozone countries (including Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium and Slovakia) round cash to the nearest 5 euro cents. Card and online payments are never rounded — only physical cash changes hands in 5-steps.
No. Banker's rounding (round-half-to-even) is used in some scientific and financial standards to reduce bias over huge datasets, but this page — and the parent rounding calculator — always rounds a halfway value up, which is the convention taught in schools and used for tax forms.
Yes, with one nuance: the engine rounds halves toward positive infinity, so 47.5 rounds up to 48 at the nearest dollar while -47.5 becomes -47. Away from exact halves, negative values round to the nearest candidate just like positive ones.