up the garden path...

[chapeau]

Well I suppose we need to know the rounding rule

 

[r.bartlett]

Well I suppose we need to know the rounding rule

This is a maths homework question there is no additional information available...

 

[chapeau]

Well it's either

4950-5049

or

4951-5050

in mm

depending on rounding rule. No doubt that is something that is assumed but I cannot remember what they taught you that far back.

If I got that wrong there is a long list of people on here ready to pounce

 

[matt1e]

School question
How long/short could it possibly be?

.

but there are multiple answers surely eg are you rounding up or down?
how short 4906
how long 5004

 

[matt1e]

to the nearest 10th of a metre

oops

I mean 4050 to 5049 as chappie says, depending on rounding rules

 

[matt1e]

If I got that wrong there is a long list of people on here ready to pounce

Which one you going for?

 

[libby lou lou]

Your first post said it was Janes garden, then your daughters homework says jeanette's garden, do they live together?

 

[AndrewSchofield]

Am I missing something here? 1/10 of a metre is 10cm. So the garden has been measured to the nearest 10cm or 0.1m.

If you want the answer in mm, I would say the shortest it could possibly be is 4950mm and the longest it could be is 5049mm.

Is that correct?

 

[AndrewSchofield]

Oooops - missed page 2 of the thread....

 

[r.bartlett]

Your first post said it was Janes garden, then your daughters homework says jeanette's garden, do they live together?

That will be covered when she goes to big school

 

[noseall]

4901

5099.

 

[sooey]

4845-5144

You're only measuring to the nearest tenth, so it could be either 4.9 or 5.1 metres long
So if we are specifying metres to 3 decimal places, and rounding up and down the shortest length possible is 4.845 mtrs and the longest is 5.144mtrs.

So you're all wrong.

Especially chappeau...who's been trained in science to a higher level than most.

 

[Nige F]

10th of a what? Are you saying to the nearest 50cm i.e your tape measure only has units of 0.5m on it?

If so, think of the tape measure with units of 50cm on it, and that should help you work it out.

clarification 10th of a metre..

Ok, so you have a tape measure with marks every 10cm. The question isn't really complete as you would need to say what units to give the answer in eg cm.

But the concept is about rounding.

lets say it's to be answered in MM

I'll edit it above too

5000 then???

5100 or 4900 mm.

 

[Nige F]

, so it could be either 4.9 or 5.1 metres long

Go away and compute Pi to a thousand places

 

[sooey]

4845 is shorter than 4900 nige, and 5144 is longer than 5100 so......you're fired.