2012 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 6
Problem
In order to estimate the value of where and are real numbers with , Xiaoli rounded up by a small amount, rounded down by the same amount, and then subtracted her rounded values. Which of the following statements is necessarily correct?
Solution
Let's define as the amount rounded up by and down by.
The problem statement tells us that Xiaoli performed the following computation:
We can see that is greater than , and so the answer is .
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