Basic College Mathematics (10th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0134467795
ISBN 13: 978-0-13446-779-5

Chapter 1 - Whole Numbers - 1.7 Rounding Whole Numbers - 1.7 Exercises - Page 75: 75

Answer

(a) $2,784,000$ (b) $2,784,075$ (c) Not significant

Work Step by Step

(a) Using rounding to solve the problem, we obtain: $$ 2,788,000 - 4,000 = 2,784,000$$ (b) The exact answer would have been: $$ 2,788,000 - 3,925 = 2,784,075$$ (c) This difference is not significant. Since there are millions of car accidents, a difference of 75 accidents is a small difference in our overall answer.
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