Perform the following calculations with the correct number of sig...

Question

Perform the following calculations with the correct number of significant figures. (a) 159.31 x 204.6

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Welcome back everybody. We are tasked with simplifying this expression while adhering to the rules of significant figures. First and foremost, what I recommend is simply just multiply this. Using your calculator first, we get something to the effect of 104.661. And now we need to express this in terms of the proper number of significant figures. Well, the rule for significant figures for multiplication or division is that we look at both terms and we need to find which one has the lowest amount of significant figures. Let's observe these terms here that are present. The significant figures for 43.5 is equal to three and the amount of significant figures for 2.406 is equal to four. As you can see here, the lower amount of significant figures is three, meaning we have to express this product in terms of three significant figures. So let me rewrite this here. We have 104.661 rounded the three significant figures is going to be 105 corresponding to our answer choice of a Thank you all so much for watching. Hope this video helped. We will see you all in the next one

Perform the following calculations with the correct number of significant figures. (a) 159.31 x 204.6

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