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Rounding is useful in the following two situations:
- round allows an approximate answer to be obtained quickly rather than a precise one after a lot of time and effort;
- when information is provided with a spurious degree of accuracy: for example, the average mass of adults given to the nearest milligram.
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What is an easy way of explaining why rounding is useful in maths?
To estimate numbers more easily.
What is 19.76485 rounded?
20 rounding units. 20.0 rounding tenths 19.8 rounding hundredths 19.76 rounding thousandths 19.765 rounding tenthousandths 19.7649 rounding hundred thousandths
What does 1.726 round to?
If you are rounding to 100ths it is 1.73 . If you are rounding to 10ths it is 1.7 . If you are rounding to integers it is 2 .
How is rounding to nearest tens similar to rounding to the nearest thousand?
The process of rounding is the same no matter what place you're rounding to.
What is the greatest possible whole number that can be rounded off to 600?
-- If rounding to the nearest 300, then 749 is. -- If rounding to the nearest 200, then 699 is. -- If rounding to the nearest 150, then 674 is. -- If rounding to the nearest hundred, then 649 is. -- If rounding to the nearest twenty, then 609 is. -- If rounding to the nearest ten, then 604 is.
