Question

How many significant figures will the answer to the calculation 65.25 x 37.4 have? Show your work.

what does this mean?

Answer 1

sig figs are all numbers except zero. so 0.002 has one sig fig while 3.005 has 4 sig fig.

Answer 2

The sig fig rules for multiplication are that your answer should have the same amount of sig figs as the number that has the least amount in your problem.
So for this problem:
1. identify which number has the least amount of sig figs
2. then multiply and round your answer so it has the same number of sig figs as you found in the first step.

Answer 3

3, the number of sig figs in your answer can only be the number of sig figs in your smallest number.

Answer 4

^ This is incorrect. The number of sig figs in you answer is determined by the smallest number of sig figs in your problem.
For example if you had 4.09 x 3.967 the least amount of sig figs you see is 3 so your answer should have 3 sig figs

Answer 5

That is what I meant... I just didn't explain it well enough. I apologize.