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A cup holds 200 ml to the nearest ml, and a large container holds 86 litres to the nearest litre. What is the smallest possible number of cupfuls? What is the largest possible number of cupfuls of water needed to fill the container?

Important Questions on Understanding Measurement

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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A straight road slopes steadily upwards. If the road rises 8 m (to the nearest metre) over a horizontal distance of 120m (given to the nearest10 m). What is the minimum possible gradient and the maximum possible gradient of the road? Write the answers to 3 significant figures. 
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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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Calculate upper and lower bounds for the area of the triangle. The two short sides of a right-angled triangle are 3.7 cm (to nearest mm) and 4.5 cm (to nearest mm). Give your answers to the nearest cm.

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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Calculate upper and lower bounds for the length of the hypotenuse. The two short sides of a right-angled triangle are 3.7cm (to nearest mm) and 4.5cm (to nearest mm). Give your answers to the nearest cm. 

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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Calculate upper and lower bounds for x.The angles in a triangle are x°, 38.4° (to 1 d.p.) and 78.1° (to 1 d.p.).

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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Calculate upper and lower bounds for x as a percentage of y to 1 decimal place.Quantity x is 45 to the nearest integer. Quantity y is 98 to the nearest integer.  

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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The following five masses are given to 3 significant figures. Calculate upper and lower bounds for the mean of these masses. 

138kg, 94.5 kg, 1090 kg ,345 kg, 0.354 kg

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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Gemma is throwing a biased die. The probability that she throws a five is 0.245 to 3 decimal places. Calculate upper and lower bounds for the number of fives Gemma expects to throw, if Gemma throws the die exactly 480 times. Give your answer to 2 decimal places. 
 
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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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A cuboid of height h has a square base of side length a. In an experiment a and h are measured as 4 cm and 11 cm respectively, each measured to the nearest cm. What are the minimum and maximum possible values of the volume in cm3?