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To: KarlInOhio

Both numbers were incorrectly rounded down. Perhaps this means students can no longer learn, “Round down from 49 or lower; round up from 50 or higher.”


24 posted on 02/13/2014 8:40:56 AM PST by Tax-chick (The platypus is a metaphor for anything that's keeping you down.)
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To: Tax-chick

That’s the way I learned it but to be even more correct and not to introduce bias whenever it is truly _ 50 (Not 501 or 50001) you round to the nearest even.

For example,

350 rounds up to 400 because 4 is even

450 rounds down to 400, not up to 500 (because 5 is odd)


44 posted on 02/13/2014 9:10:26 AM PST by ladyjane
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