How many significant figures are in the measurement 811.40 grams?

Answer 1

There would be five. The only time you do not count figures as significant is if they are zeroes behind a decimal, but before any other figure.

Ex/

0.000501 only has three significant figures, while 1.000501 has seven.

Answer 2

5

All of them are significant.

If you had a number such as 003.904, there would only be 4 significant figures because the zeros at the start do not mean anything, but ALL the rest of the numbers are significant.

Answer 3

There are 5 significant figures in the measurement 811.40 grams. The non-zero digits and zeros between them are all considered significant in this measurement.

Answer 4

there are 5 signficant figures in 811.40^^

Answer 5

Just count them left to right excluding leading zero's ==> five significant fig's

Answer 6

All five of the figures in 807.44 grams are significant, so there are 5.

Answer 7

6, assuming that the 0 at the end is there to indicate the degree of accuracy rather than simply decorative.

Answer 8

This mass has 5 significant figures.

Answer 9

There are 5 significant figures

Answer 10

5 of them.