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Significant Figures
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What is a signif icant f igure?
There are 2 kinds of numbers:
– Exact: the amount of money in your account. Known with
certainty.
– Approximate: weight, height —
anything MEASURED. No
measurement is perfect.
– The number of significant figures in a result is
simply the number of figures that are knownwith some degree of reliability. The number 13.2
is said to have 3 significant figures. The number
13.20 is said to have 4 significant figures
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When to use Signif icant f igures
• When a measurement is recorded only thosedigits that are dependable are written down.
• If you measured the width of a paper with your ruler
you might record 21.7cm.
To a mathematician 21.70, or 21.700 is the same.
21.700cm to a analyst means the measurement is
accurate to within one thousandth of a cm.If you used an ordinary ruler, the smallest marking
is the mm, so your measurement has to berecorded as 21.7cm.
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Rules for significant figures
• Rule : All digits are significant
starting with the first non-zero digiton the left.
• Exception to rule : In whole numbers that
end in zero, the zeros at the end are notsignificant.
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How many sig figs?
• 7
• 40• 0.5
• 0.00003• 7 x 105
• 7,000,000
• 1
• 1• 1
• 1• 1
• 1
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• 2 nd Exception to rule : If zeros are
sandwiched between non-zerodigits, the zeros become significant.
• 3rd Exception to rule : If zeros are
at the end of a number that has a
decimal, the zeros are significant.
• These zeros are showing how accuratethe measurement or calculation are.
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How many sig figs here?
• 1.2
•
2100• 56.76
• 4.00
• 0.0792
• 7,083,000,000
• 2
•
2• 4
• 3
• 3
• 4
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How many sig figs here?
• 3401
•
2100• 2100.0
• 5.00
• 0.00412
• 8,000,050,000
• 4
•
2• 5
• 3
• 3
• 6
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What about calculations with
sig figs?• Rule: When adding or
subtracting measurednumbers, the answer can have
no more places after thedecimal than the LEAST of
the measured numbers.
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Add/Subtract examples• 2.45cm + 1.2cm = 3.65cm,
• Round off to = 3.7cm
•
7.432cm + 2cm = 9.432round to 9cm
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Multipl ication and Division
• Rule: When multiplying
or dividing, the resultcan have no more
significant figures thanthe least reliable
measurement.
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A couple of examples
• 56.78 cm x 2.45cm = 139.111 cm2
• Round to 139cm2
•75.8cm x 9.6cm = ?
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2000 ml 0.2 ml 20.00 ml 20 ml
52.50 g .0900 g .0042 g 1.0000 g
4.0 cm 40 mm 40. mm .0040m
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Summary1) ALL non-zero numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) are
ALWAYS significant.
2) ALL zeroes between non-zero numbers are
ALWAYS significant.
3) ALL zeroes which are SIMULTANEOUSLY tothe right of the decimal point AND at the end of
the number are ALWAYS significant.
4) ALL zeroes which are to the left of a writtendecimal point and are in a number >= 10 are
ALWAYS significant.