Math: Can you round 83.8548 to 83.86 if you desire 4 sig figs? I've been told

Erik

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otherwise, that...? ...I cannot round the 4 up to a 5 so that it can round the 5 in the hundredths place to a 6.
Why isn't the cascading effect of rounding up toward the left of this number allowed?
 
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