Question

how many significant figures in 0.009?

Answer 1

zeros after the decimal point and before a number > 0 are counted as significant

Answer 2

thanks Welshfella.

Answer 3

yw

Answer 4

round 93.63874 into three significant figures

Answer 5

ok what is the 4 th significant figure in the number?

Answer 6

just start with 9 and count 4 ( 9 = first )

Answer 7

93.6?

Answer 8

if that were the case @Cynthia24 it would be 3 sig figs

Answer 9

Your asking to round to four sig figs.
EX: 90.008 has 5 sig figs because the thousandth's place holds a significant number. Sig figs just show how accurate your data needs to be.