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B

1) We will be able to find just the a
2) 10.0000 - 1.4355 => 8.5645

He is right that the answer is B but the rounding is wrong since if a number is 5 you round up so its 1.4365 but thats trivial.

A good approach for this is to write it down as:

10.0000
01.4ab5

since you want to know what a and b are you need to get at least to the thousandths position, so that right there tells you that at a minimum the solution must provide you with that level of detail.



Could you please explain it in more detail? I am not able to understand the explanation, the right side of the decimal is UNITS digit or TENTHS? and what about left side of the decimal, the place values to right and left? I am not very clear about it. COuld you please explain?
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B

1) We will be able to find just the a
2) 10.0000 - 1.4355 => 8.5645

He is right that the answer is B but the rounding is wrong since if a number is 5 you round up so its 1.4365 but thats trivial.

A good approach for this is to write it down as:

10.0000
01.4ab5

since you want to know what a and b are you need to get at least to the thousandths position, so that right there tells you that at a minimum the solution must provide you with that level of detail.


Could you please explain it in more detail? I am not able to understand the explanation, the right side of the decimal is UNITS digit or TENTHS? and what about left side of the decimal, the place values to right and left? I am not very clear about it. COuld you please explain?


To the right of the decimal its always stated as "...THS" i.e. tenths, hundredths, thousandths. So you know that b is in the thousandths position so you need to know that at a minimum for this question.



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