Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
How many significant figures should be present in the answer of the following calculation?
5 × 5.364
Advertisements
Solution
5 × 5.364
Least precise number of calculation = 5.364
∴ Number of significant figures in the answer
= Number of significant figures in 5.364
= 4
RELATED QUESTIONS
How many significant figures are present in the 2.0034?
Round up the following upto three significant figures:
34.216
Round up the following upto three significant figures:
10.4107
Round up the following upto three significant figures:
0.04597
Round up the following upto three significant figures:
2808
How many significant figures should be present in the answer of the following calculation?
0.0125 + 0.7864 + 0.0215
A student measures the thickness of a human hair by looking at it through a microscope of magnification 100. He makes 20 observations and finds that the average width of the hair in the field of view of the microscope is 3.5 mm. What is the estimate on the thickness of hair?
You are given a thread and a metre scale. How will you estimate the diameter of the thread?
It is a well known fact that during a total solar eclipse the disk of the moon almost completely covers the disk of the Sun. From this fact and from the information you can gather from examples 2.3 and 2.4, determine the approximate diameter of the moon.
State the number of significant figures in the following:
2.64 × 1024 kg
State the number of significant figures in the following:
6.320 J
Describe what is meant by significant figures.
Solve the numerical example.
A large ball 2 m in radius is made up of a rope of square cross-section with edge length 4 mm. Neglecting the air gaps in the ball, what is the total length of the rope to the nearest order of magnitude?
Assertion (A): Significant figures for 0.200 is 3 where as for 200 it is 1.
Reason (R): Zero at the end or right of a number are significant provided they are not on the right side of the decimal point.
The number of significant figures in 0.06900 is ______.
Using the rules for significant figures, the correct answer for the expression `(0.02858 xx 0.112)/(0.5702)` will be ______.
How many significant figures are present in the measurement 2007 grams?
