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8.7 Since you want to round to the nearest whole number, add 0.5 to 8.7 and you 0.5 get 9.2 and now truncate everything but the whole number and the answer is 9 ___ 9.2 ___
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An alternative which cuts out a step, is to round down if the decimal part is less than 0.5, round up if 5 and above.
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What is the number 87 942 rounded to the nearest thousand?
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What is 87 rounded down to the nearest ten?
The answer is 80
What is 87 rounded to the nearest 10th?
It is already rounded to a greater extent than that.
What is the whole number of 87?
87 is, itself, a whole number.
How many questions can you get wrong on a 46 question test to to maintain an 87 percent?
87% of 46 = 0.87 * 46 = 40.02.Assuming you can only score whole marks then you will need to score 41 out of 46 to be certain (although 40 out of 46 would also be rounded up to 87 as the nearest whole percentage, which might be done.)
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