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mr mcmath

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Registered: 2006-11-17

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divide by pi??

1) 182/3.14 round up to 4 decimal places

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mathsyperson

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Re: divide by pi??

The easiest thing to do here would be to use a calculator.

If you took pi as being 3.14, then you could technically do it by long division, but a calculator is much simpler. If you take pi as being 3.14, then you get 57.9618 when rounding up to 4 decimal places, and if you take pi as pi (or at least, the much more accurate version of pi as found on my calculator), then you get 57.9324.

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mr mcmath

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Registered: 2006-11-17

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Re: divide by pi??

Thank you, except we're not allowed to use calculators in the exam

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Ricky

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Registered: 2005-12-04

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Re: divide by pi??

Do you know how to do decimal division?  This is no different.

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