The accuracy of the answer is limited to the LEAST significant figures of the input. So if two measured quantities are multiplied or divided, one of which is accurate to only two significant figures, and other to six significant figures, the answer is only accurate to two significant figures. HOWEVER: use all the figures you have for the calculation, and then round your answer to two significant figures. Also, however, remember that if you are multiplying by an actual exact number, as in doubling, the significant figures of that 2 is unlimited, so the answer is only limited by the significant figures of the number you are doubling.
When multiplying numbers, the result should have the same number of significant figures as the original number with the fewest significant figures. In this case, 400 has one significant figure, and 185 has three significant figures. Therefore, the result of multiplying 400 by 185 will have one significant figure. The answer would be 70,000.
Three significant figures are in this number.
There are six significant figures in this number (i.e. all the figures here are significant).
There are 4 significant figures in this number.
The least number of significant figures in any number of the problem determines the number of significant figures in the answer.
The answer will usually depend on the number of significant figures in the numbers from which there numbers were derived.
Five. If you write numbers representing the numbers in a calculation or an answer, then the number of significant figures is the number of figures written down. The number of significant figures in 351.739002 is 9; Don't confuse "significant figures" with "decimal places". The number above has 6 decimal places.
It depends on the number of significant figures from two numbers you are multiplying. But when multiplying you use the same number of significant figures from the numbers you are multiplying with the LEAST number of significant figures. Example: 92,873.239 * 2 = 200,000 (because the number 2 has only 1 significant figure even tho 92,873.239 has 8 significant figures your answer still only has 1 significant figure)
The least number of significant figures in any number of the problem determines the number of significant figures in the answer.
Two - all nonzero numbers are significant.
significant figures in the original numbers used in the calculation. This means the final answer should be rounded to the same number of significant figures as the number with the least amount of significant figures.
There are 5 significant figures in 70700 as the zeros are between and after the numbers.
The number given of 11254 has five significant figures
multiplying
To determine the number of significant figures, count the digits in the value, excluding any leading zeros. All non-zero digits are considered significant. For example, the value 0.0052 has two significant figures.
12.5912