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The author focuses especially on weaknesses in numeracy often observed in adults, and in teacher-trainees in particular.
Check-up 19: Rounding Answers
Check-up 19: Rounding Answers
The table shows the numbers of various A-level grades achieved by female and male candidates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in one particular year, together with the total number of entries. Using a calculator, express the numbers given for A-grades and B-grades for females as percentages of the number of female entries, and the numbers given for A-grades and B-grades for males as percentages of the number of male entries: (a) to the nearest percent, (b) to one decimal place, (c) to two decimal places. Which of these seems the most appropriate way to give the percentages?
Answers to Check-up 19
- Females: A-grades 15%, B-grades 17%. Males: A-grades 17%, B-grades 17%.
- Females: A-grades 15.1%, B-grades 17.5%. Males: ...