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Math - when do you round?

Hey, new here, but love the site! I test on Wed at 2pm (ah, so soon!), and am taking the Kaplan online course. I noticed on Kaplan for drug dosage questions they do not round to the 10th place, but the 100th place. DOes anyone know the NCLEX rule? Thanks!!!:jester:

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The NCLEX tells you (in the question) how far they want you to round the answer, so no need to worry about that.

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Well that is great news!!! Have you taken the test? Just wondering how you found out, I had no idea. THanks!

Yes the NCLEX will tell you what place to round too.. I had 2 math questions and it was the same for both

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The NCLEX tells you (in the question) how far they want you to round the answer, so no need to worry about that.

Mine didn't and I just about died because I didn't read the introductory questions and just scrolled past it so I thought that was where it told you how much to round.

Just took NCLEX today, had 2 math problems, both questions told me how to round.

Well that is great news!!! Have you taken the test? Just wondering how you found out, I had no idea. THanks!

Yes... like some others mentioned here, I had two math questions and was told how to round the answer on both.

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Dang, what test did I take? Oh well I passed it with 75. :D

My first one I did round up but the second one, thank goodness, worked out whole. May I ask without violating any NCLEX secrecy what rounding method they had you use?

I think the two questions I had, one said "round to the nearest whole number" and the other said round to one decimal or something like that. Hopefully that doesn't violate any rules by saying that! :coollook:

What about drops per minute? I feel like I should round the the nearest drop, but I think they taught us to round UP in school, but I can't remember for sure. So 30.2 becomes 31 drops, or 30 drops? Anyone know which way it goes? Thanks!

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What about drops per minute? I feel like I should round the the nearest drop, but I think they taught us to round UP in school, but I can't remember for sure. So 30.2 becomes 31 drops, or 30 drops? Anyone know which way it goes? Thanks!

Not sure how NCLEX wants it but in school I always did it by the 10th, so if it was 30.2 I would do 30gtts if it was 30.5 I would do 31. Why can't they just make them come out even?

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Jules - Thanks. I looked in my class notes, and we used regular rounding there (to the nearest drop, like you described). I don't know why I was thinking differently.

Any # over 5 and u would round up. For example 30.5 would = 31 gtt/min. Since it is 30.2 it would = 30 gtt/min:) Hope this helps

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