Tuesday, June 23, 2009

practice problems for homework 1

Change these numbers in Hindu-Arabic to Roman numerals.

631 = ______

15,781 = _____

Change these numbers in Roman numerals to Hindu-Arabic.
__
IXCDXLIV = ____

DCXCVII = ____

Find the approximation of 7/37 to the following number of decimal places and find the exact repeating decimal representation.

7/37 to the nearest tenth = _____
7/37 to the nearest hundredth = _____
7/37 to the nearest thousandth = ____

Repeating decimal representation = _____

Answers in the comments.

1 comment:

Prof. Hubbard said...

Change these numbers in Hindu-Arabic to Roman numerals.

631 =
DCXXXI

15,781 =
__
XVDCCLXXXI

Change these numbers in Roman numerals to Hindu-Arabic.
__
IXCDXLIV =
9,444

DCXCVII =
697

Find the approximation of 7/37 to the following number of decimal places and find the exact repeating decimal representation.

7/37 to the nearest tenth = .2

7/37 to the nearest hundredth = .19

7/37 to the nearest thousandth = .189


Repeating decimal representation =
___
.189