Question

How many significant figures should the following answer have? (23.34 cm)(90076 cm)(2.1223 cm) = cm

Answer 1

Answer : The number of significant figures are, four (4).

Explanation :

The rule apply for the multiplication and division is :

The least number of significant figures in any number of the problem determines the number of significant figures in the answer.

As we are given :

$(23.34cm)\times (90076cm)\times (2.1223cm)$

$\Rightarrow 4462000cm^3$

In this problem, the least number of significant figures is 4.

So, the correct answer is, $4.462\times 10^{6}cm^3$

Hence, the number of significant figures are, four (4).

Answer 2

4 - due to being a multiplication problem the answer goes to the least amount of Sig Figs given in a previous number.