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usmankhaliq
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Hey everyone. I need to ask you guys a pretty basic stuff. While solving a few past paper questions, I noticed that my answers were a few decimal places off from the ones given in the examiner report. I realised that this discrepency was there because I was plugging in the entire formula in my calculator, storing the intermediate values with all the decimal places and then using them to find my answer, whereas in the solutions provided in the examination report, the intermediate values had been taken upto a certain decimal place, hence leading to the irregularity in the answers. I have a couple of things to clarify regarding this:
1) Is the method which I am using the correct one, i.e. storing the exact intermediate values in the calculator and then using it, or am I supposed to choose the values upto a certain number of significant figures/decimal places?
2) Should there be any discrepency between my answers and the ones given in the examinations if our methods are slightly different?
I would be extremely grateful if someone could help me out with this. Cheers
1) Is the method which I am using the correct one, i.e. storing the exact intermediate values in the calculator and then using it, or am I supposed to choose the values upto a certain number of significant figures/decimal places?
2) Should there be any discrepency between my answers and the ones given in the examinations if our methods are slightly different?
I would be extremely grateful if someone could help me out with this. Cheers