Correct way to use double type to represent money quantities

I was assigned a project where I had to create a class that received money quantities as double numbers and that implemented a method returning a quantity of money as double. I have to use this scheme as we have no seen other data types in class.
My question is, what can I do to make sure that the value I'm returning is a double number that looks like money. For example, I don't want my method to return 10.78889332., I want it to return 10.79. How can I do that? Is there any intended method for that?
Can I let this issue like that and then take care of it in the test class by formating the output of the method when using it. I think this approach is not correct.
Thanks for your time.

See http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
There is no correct way to use double type to represent money quantities. You shouldn't be receiving them, you shouldn't use them, and you shouldn't return them. Floating-point is for science, not money.
Use BIgDecimal.

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