How many significant figures are in 0.00200?

Answer 1

To assess how many significant figures a number has been given to, you first need to find the greatest non-zero digit. In this case that is the 2. The next step is to count how many digits have been given after this one. In this case there are no more. Thus the figure 0.002 is to 1 significant figure.

Answer 2

there are 3 sig figs because the preceding zero's do not count

Answer 3

The zeros between the decimal point and the first non-zero digit are not significant, but the two zeros at the end are, so there are six significant digits.

Answer 4

It has five significant figures.

Answer 5

0.0602 has three significant figures.

Answer 6

It has two significant figures.

Answer 7

3 of them.

Answer 8

6 of them.

Answer 9

Three

Answer 10

1