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In 1997, there were 12,298,000 undergraduate students in U.S. colleges. Ac-cording to the U.S. Department of Education, there were 127,000 American Indian orAlaskan Native students, 737,000 Asian or Paciﬁc Islander, 1,380,000 non-Hispanicblack, 1,108,000 Hispanic, and 8,682,000 non-Hispanic white students. In addition,265,000 foreign undergraduates were enrolled in U.S. colleges.(a) Each number, including the total, is rounded to the nearest thousand. Separaterounding may cause
round of errors, so that the sum of the counts does not equal the total given.

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AP Statistics Help
 In 1997, there were 12,298,000 undergraduate students in U.S. colleges. Ac-cording to the U.S. Department of Education, there were 127,000 American Indian orAlaskan Native students, 737,000 Asian or Paciﬁc Islander, 1,380,000 non-Hispanicblack, 1,108,000 Hispanic, and 8,682,000 non-Hispanic white students. In addition,265,000 foreign undergraduates were enrolled in U.S. colleges.(a) Each number, including the total, is rounded to the nearest thousand. Separaterounding may cause
round of errors, so that the sum of the counts does not equal the total given.

anonymous · Answer

Are round off errors present in these data? Explain

anonymous · Answer

Add it up and check.

anonymous · Answer

It tells you how to do it.

anonymous · Answer

It adds up to 12299000

anonymous · Answer

Looks like it's off by 1000, which is understandable.

anonymous · Answer

So do round off errors exist then?

valpey · Answer

Assume that there are exactly 12,298,499 undergrads (the highest number which rounds down to 12,298,000. Now assume each of the six sub-categories has an actual count slightly less than the stated (rounded-up) count.