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Tuongvan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

round up/down a number

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001/ My exam score is 4.5 , so the teacher will sure 01b00round it up / off to 502b00.02br
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002/ My exam score is 4.25 , so the teacher will sure 01b00round it down / off to 5.02b02br
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003/ I bought a shirt for VND 50,025 , so the cashier rounded it off to VND 50,000.02br
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004/ Since the purchase price was an odd number , so the cashier rounded it off to the nearest dollar /dong / yen 02br
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005/ Since the purchase price was an odd number , so the cashier rounded it off .02br
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00Thank you very much.0-
  

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0Usually, if something is .5 or more, you round UP.02br
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00I'm not familiar with any teacher who will round up a 4.25 to a 5. 02br
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00Your use of "round off" is okay, but don't use both "since" and "so."0-
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0If you round a number to the nearest multiple of five, 4.45 will become 4.5 and 4.75 will become 5.0. Am I right?0-
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04.75 is just as near 4.5 as 5.0 as you seem to be rounding to two decimal places with your other example. who can say?02br
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00Anyway the main point to learn here is that when you 'round up' you make the number bigger and when you 'round down' you make the number smaller.0-
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0Sorry teachers , I made a mistake when wrote 5 instead of 4 in sentence # 2 , which should reread as :02br
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002/ My exam score is 4.25 , so the teacher will sure 01b00round it down / off to 4.02b02br
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00I wonder whether "round off "can be used for both directions :up and down.i.e can I say " My exam score is 4.25 , so the teac
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0I would say "round off" can apply to either rounding up or rounding down.0-
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0thank you Clive vey much. I understand now.050010id2
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0thank you Clive vey much. I understand now.050010id2
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dear all,
i need examples for each case of round up & round down respectively
if the integer is over five and below five, what's the different answer of each case of
round up & round down.
regards,
kk
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