Rounding and Significant Figures - Class VII

Practice problems on rounding decimals to various precision levels and understanding significant figures in numerical calculations

29 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Write the number of significant digits in:

$3.005$.

  1. $4$
  2. $2$
  3. $1$
  4. $0$
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Write the number of significant digits in:

$5.16 \times 10^8$.

  1. $3$
  2. $1$
  3. $2$
  4. $9$
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Write the number of significant digits in:

$16.000$.

  1. $2$
  2. $5$
  3. $16$
  4. $1$
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Write the number of significant digits in $23.4$

  1. $2$
  2. $23.4$
  3. $3$
  4. $1$
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Divide $7$  by $11$ and express the result in two significant digits.

  1. $0.64$
  2. $0.583$
  3. $0.54$
  4. $0.67$
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Write the number of significant digits in:

$0.07$.

  1. $7$
  2. $1$
  3. $3$
  4. $2$
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Write the number of significant digits in:

$0.0016$.

  1. $2$
  2. $5$
  3. $1$
  4. $4$
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Write the number of significant digits in:

$805.060$.

  1. $3$
  2. $2$
  3. $5$
  4. $6$
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$0.\overline{5}$ in the form of $\frac{p}{q}$ is :

  1. $\dfrac{9}{5}$
  2. $\dfrac{5}{10}$
  3. $\dfrac{5}{9}$
  4. $\dfrac{10}{5}$
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Express $\displaystyle 9\frac{7}{20}$ as a decimal.

  1. $9.05$
  2. $9.53$
  3. $9.26$
  4. $9.35$
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In expressing a length $81.472 \ km$ as nearly as possible with three significant digits, the percent error is

  1. $0.34\%$
  2. $0.034\%$
  3. $0.0034\%$
  4. $0.0038\%$
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the decimal o.d25d25d25 ................ is expressible in the form n/27, then d+n must be

  1. 9
  2. 28
  3. 30
  4. 34
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Express $ \dfrac {5}{13} $ correct to $3$ significant figures.

  1. $1.26$
  2. $0.385$
  3. $0.00385$
  4. $0.103$
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The number of significant digits in the measurement of the side of a square whose computed area is $1.1025$ square inches to the nearest tenthousandth of a square cm is

  1. $2$
  2. $3$
  3. $4$
  4. $5$
  5. $1$
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding significant figures?

  1. All the non-zero digits are significant.
  2. All the zeros between two non-zero digits are significant.
  3. Greater the number of significant figures in a measurement, smaller is the percentage error.
  4. The power of 10 is counted while counting the number of significant figures.
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Divide $0.3297$ by $0.07$, correct to $2$ significant digits.

  1. $4.4$
  2. $4.7$
  3. $4.9$
  4. None of these
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In the decimal, $2.4d7$, $d$ represents a digit from 0 to 9. If the value of the decimal rounded to the nearest tenth, is less than $2.5$, what are the possible values of $d$?

  1. $0,1,2$
  2. $0,1,2,3,4$
  3. $5,6,7$
  4. $5,6,7,8,9$
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\displaystyle 6.743\times 100$ is equal to _____ 

  1. $674.300$
  2. $.674300$
  3. $67.4300$
  4. $6.74300$
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Calculate the value of the following expression by appropriate rounding off of the numbers:
$\displaystyle 0.43\times 0.87=$

  1. $0.31$
  2. $0.35$
  3. $0.36$
  4. $0.38$
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

On rounding off the decimal part of $32.4$ to the nearest one, we get

  1. $30$
  2. $32$
  3. $33$
  4. $35$
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Round each of the following decimals to the nearest one?

  1. $72.8$
  2. $9.4$
  3. $40.7$
  4. $6.1$
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

While rounding off, if the digit to be dropped is less than $5$, then the preceding digit:

  1. increases by $1$
  2. remains unchanged
  3. decreases by $1$
  4. None of the above
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

66.7 can be approximated to

  1. 67
  2. 92
  3. 88
  4. 127
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

List T consists of 30 positive decimals, none of which is an integer, and the sum of the 30 decimals is S.The estimated sum of the 30 decimals, E, is defined as follows. Each decimal in T whose tenths digit is even is rounded up to the nearest integer, and each decimal in T whose tenths digit is odd is rounded down to the nearest integer; E is the sum of the resulting integers. If $\displaystyle \frac { 1 }{ 3 } $ of the decimals in T have a tenths digit that is even, which of the following is a possible value of E- S ? 
I. -16
II. 6
III.10

  1. I only
  2. I and II only
  3. I and III only
  4. II and III only
  5. I, II and III
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the value to three places of decimal of  the following. It is given that $\sqrt{2}=1.414, \sqrt{3} = 1.732, \sqrt{5} = 2.236$ and $\sqrt{10}=3.162.$ 


$\dfrac{\sqrt{5}+1}{\sqrt{2}}$

  1. $2.288$
  2. $1.2845$
  3. $3.629$
  4. None of the above
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is $4,563,021 \div 10^5$, rounded to the nearest whole number?

  1. 45
  2. 44
  3. 46
  4. 47
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Round off each of the following as required.

$5.5493$ correct to two decimal places.

  1. $5.00$
  2. $5.54$
  3. $5.50$
  4. $5.55$
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The correct expansion of $6.\overline {46}$ in the fractional form is :

  1. $\dfrac{646}{99}$
  2. $\dfrac{640}{100}$
  3. $\dfrac{64640}{1000}$
  4. $\dfrac{640}{99}$
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Multiply $4.28$ and $0.67.$ Round off the product obtained correct to three decimal places

  1. $2.798$
  2. $2.868$
  3. $0.85$
  4. None of these