Mathematics - Approximation and Estimation (Michael)

1. Round off 789 532 to the nearest

i. 100
ii. 1000
iii. 10 000

2. Correct each of the following numbers to 2 decimal places.

i. 26.8047
ii. 14.93

3. Correct 36.2598
i. 1 decimal place
ii. The nearest whole number
iii. 3 decimal places

4. State the number of significant figures in each of the following

i. 0.003506
ii. 7 231.656 540
iii. 2.0087

5. Round off each of the following to the number of significant figures as given in
brackets.
i. 0.054 452 (4 s.f.)
ii. 0.076 952 (3 s.f.)
iii. 19.648 51 (2 s.f.)

6. Express 984.6080 correct to

i. 2 decimal places
ii. 4 significant figures
iii. 3 decimal places
iv. The nearest hundredths
7. Express
i. 0.000 142 58 correct to 3 significant figures
ii. 5.1235 correct to 1 decimal place
iii. 1025 correct to 2 significant figures

8. Evaluate each of the following and correct your answers to 1 significant figure.

9. Use calculator to evaluate each of the following. Correct your answers to 5 s.f.

10. A restaurant owner had estimated that he had 300 customers on a particular
day.
i. What was the smallest possible number of customers?
ii. What was the largest possible number of customers?

11. A shirt cists 27 800 Korean Won (KRW). The conversion rate is S$1 = KRW 876.
Estimate the price of the shirt in Singapore dollars.
12. An organiser spent $7 million for a concert at Marina Bay. A newspaper
reported that her organiser had to sell 18 905 tickets to recoup their
investment on the concert.
i. Write down 18 905 correct to 2 significant figures.
ii. Use your answer in (i) to estimate the cost of a ticket, correct to the nearest
dollar.

13. Ethan and his classmates have to stay for the night to rush a project. He orders
9 set meals for dinner and each set meal costs $6.90. Ethan is asked to pay
$70. Show by estimation that Ethan has paid the wrong amount for the set
meals.

14. Use your calculator to find the value of and giving

your answer correct to 2s.f.

15. A stack of 500 A4-sized aper is 60mm thick. Find the thickness of each A4
paper.
i. In cm, correct to 2 decimal places.
ii. In m, correct to 1 significant figure.