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in the NYC marathon, 42,429 people finished the race and received a medal. if you were the person in charge of ordering the medals and estimated how many to order by rounding, would you have ordered enough
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in the NYC marathon, 42,429 people finished the race and received a medal. if you were the person in charge of ordering the medals and estimated how many to order by rounding, would you have ordered enough medal? explain....

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If you round off the number of medals you wouldn't have ordered enough for each person.  You would round it off to 42,400 people so 29 people wouldn't get any medals.
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