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Will my numbers add up correctly if I round them?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2016
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I recently wrote a solution to a student problem. The answers were the probabilities for four possible outcomes. As a check on the calculations, I wanted to say ‘As expected, these probabilities add up to 1.’ However, they didn't! Because of rounding, the probabilities (which I was quoting to four decimal places) only added up to 0.9999. To rescue the situation I tried rounding to 3DP or 5DP instead, but these didn't add up correctly either.
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