I’m a journalism student in college, and math is one of the requirements for not only graduation, but also to help me transfer to a four-year school. There are going to be some situations coming my ...

The ability to round a number to a number of decimal places or to a number of significant figures is essential if answers are to be written to the correct degree of accuracy asked for in a question.

Most wire or string is made with a circular cross section of some particular radius and diameter. The area of that cross section is the well known A = pi*R² which is colloquially pronounced as “pie ...