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...Statistics gives the number of people unemployed in the UK in February 2019 as 1.36 million. The number of people unemployed will not be exactly 1 360 000 but, by rounding the exact value and writing it as 1.36 million, it is easier to understand. Activity 6: Rounding large numbers The following table gives the population of countries. Round each population to the nearest...

...Statistics gives the number of people unemployed in the UK in February 2019 as 1.36 million. The number of people unemployed will not be exactly 1 360 000 but, by rounding the exact value and writing it as 1.36 million, it is easier to understand. Activity 6: Rounding large numbers The following table gives the population of countries. Round each population to the nearest...

...statistical laws. The main danger from a gas leak is asphyxiation. A small vehicle can stop more quickly than a large one. Lightning does not strike twice in the same place. A silver spoon turns black in contact with poisonous toadstools. A tourniquet is the best method for stopping bleeding from a wound. Accidents happen to other people. It is impossible to remain afloat...

...Statistical Manual from the American Psychiatric Association). It is important for diagnostic criteria to be reliable because so much depends on the process. For example, for anyone attempting to understand the nature of a condition, the prevalence or incidence rates would be misleading if diagnosis of that condition were not reliable. For anyone who might receive...

...Statistics (ONS) revised life expectancy down citing ‘fears of the re-emergence of existing diseases and increases in antimicrobial resistance’. ‘… it is entirely possible that we could see a return to a situation where 40 per cent of the population die prematurely from infections we cannot treat’, Professor Dame Sally Davis, UK Chief Medical Officer (The...