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document.write( "A. When measuring the number of questions students answered correctly on a test.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "NEAREST INTEGER.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "B. When measuring what proportion of the total possible points students have earned in a course.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "AS A DECIMAL EQUIVALENT - 4 PLACES.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "AS A PERCENT - 2 PLACES.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "REMEMBER THAT DECIMAL = PERCENT DIVIDED BY 100 AND PERCENT = DECIMAL * 100.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "C. When counting the number of people having various blood types.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "NEAREST INTEGER. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "D. When measuring the number of dollar bills possessed by each person in the group.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "NEAREST INTEGER.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If your answer requires discrete units, such as number of people, then rounding to the nearest integer is desired.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Anything non-discrete, like a percent or a proportion, or a ratio, or a measurement of distance would be rounded to the requirements of the problem.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "How accurate does your answer need to be.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If it's finding a landing spot on the moon, then many decimal places are required.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If figuring out the approximate number of something to the nearest hundred, then no decimal places are required.\r<BR>\n" );
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