Funeral procession of Snooker Player Alex Higgins

In which scenario would you use the floor function?

• Calculating the total number of items in a full box

• Finding the maximum value in a dataset

• Determining the average of a set of numbers

• Rounding a number to the nearest tenth

What is the primary purpose of the floor function in mathematics?

• To find the square root of a number

• To round a number up to the nearest integer

• To calculate the absolute value of a number

• To round a number down to the nearest integer

Which of the following best describes the floor function?

• It rounds a number down to the nearest integer

• It rounds a number to the nearest odd integer

• It rounds a number to the nearest even integer

• It rounds a number up to the nearest integer

Which of the following numbers will the floor function convert 3.7 into?

• 3

• 2

• 4

• 5

What is the result of applying the floor function to -2.3?

• -2

• -3

• 0

• -1