Hi @liz.concepcion.arch ,
In the situation you’ve described you would need to round down so as not to exceed the budget. It always depends on the situation as to whether you round up or down - in this question the maximum budget is the key that you need to round down instead of up.
Questions about rounding get asked a lot. Check out these other posts regarding rounding and in what situations you round up/down!
hi any clarification on the round up or down
if the occupant is an odd number, how does the plumbing count work, say 43 overall, how do you divide man/women
there is one question in PA exam 3, how do you round up or down in this case, any logic
basically asking about parking spaces. from the material, it said that the required numbered of spaces is 43. Because 50% is the minimum for standard size spaces, 21 can be compact car spaces.
for plumbing , if the calc is 20.1 water closet , do we use…
Hi @najia.hashim ,
This is a tricky area! No worries!
In your first exam you would round up to the nearest full occupant (because you can’t cut occupants in half). This is rounding to the most stringent value (in the eyes of the code) because you have to account for exit widths of one more full person.
You must round up for plumbing fixture counts as you’ve described.
And I think you were correct in both of your assessments, there was just some confusion about what was most stringent as far …
Hi @ranbebexuan ,
Let me see if I can help! I’ve pasted a portion of NCARB’s blog post doing a deep dive into question types below:
[image]
Quantitative fill in the blank questions on the exam will specify the units. Unless there are cues in the question about what unit to round too, I wouldn’t round the response. In your example I would answer 9.2. At the same time, if you’ve gotten a wacky number and the prompt doesn’t ask you to round, you might want to reevaluate your calculation.
This…
Hope this helps!