document.write( "Question 1199674: Please help me solve this equation
\n" ); document.write( "Zack invested $5,500 in a mutual fund with an offer price of $20.40 and a net asset value of $10.50. How many shares did Zack purchase? Round to thousandths. \n" ); document.write( "
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\n" ); document.write( "Please help me solve this equation
\n" ); document.write( "Zack invested $5,500 in a mutual fund with an offer price of $20.40 and a net
\n" ); document.write( "asset value of $10.50. How many shares did Zack purchase? Round to thousandths.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The answer must be integer number, since the number of shares can not be non-integer decimal.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "So, I do not understand the meaning of this instruction \"round to thousandths\".\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Truly, it makes no sense.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "It seems to me, that a person who composed this problem, did not get
\n" ); document.write( "even the level of rules of rounding yet in his mathematical development.\r
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