If they do not specify, round to the nearest ....

• A. Whole unit
• B. Hundredth
• C. Tenth
• D. Thousandth

Answer: (B)

When you’re not told what precision to use, a common default in measurement reporting is two decimal places, i.e., the nearest hundredth. This level of precision matches what most scales and analytical methods can reliably produce and report, and it provides enough detail to distinguish small differences without implying an unrealistically high degree of accuracy. Rounding to the nearest tenth would lose information that the two-decimal standard preserves, while rounding to the nearest thousandth or to a whole unit would be overly precise or overly coarse for typical veterinary inspection data. So the nearest hundredth is the sensible default.