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The Unversity Interscolastic League number Sense Test, J series rounds down at 5.  This is contrary to all text books I have seen.  I have seen this on 4 separate practice tests.


Example  :  65000 rounds to 60000 (most textbooks round to 70000)


Please send me any insite you have.



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are you talking about the estimation problems?


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Is the question related to significant figures? In science people are taught to round to the even number when reporting a certain number of significant figures. So for example 2.5 would round to 2 (not 3) when reporting 1 significant figure, but 3.5 would round to 4 (not 3).

Here's one link I found online showing this:

http://www.uwsp.edu/chemistry/tzamis/chem105pdfs/measureunitconvert04.pdf#search='round%20to%20even%20number'

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