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A chemist needs to know the mass of a sample of aniline to 3 significant digits. She puts the sample on a digital scale. This is what the scale shows: 008.631 g If this measurement is precise enough for the chemist, round it to 3 significant digits.

          A chemist needs to know the mass of a sample of aniline to 3 significant digits. She puts the sample on a digital scale. This is what the scale shows:
008.631 g
If this measurement is precise enough for the chemist, round it to 3 significant digits.
        
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A chemist needs to know the mass of a sample of aniline to 3 significant digits. She puts the sample on a digital scale. This is what the scale shows:
008.631 g
If this measurement is precise enough for the chemist, round it to 3 significant digits.

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A chemist needs to know the mass of a sample of aniline to 3 significant digits. She puts the sample on a digital scale. This is what the scale shows: If this measurement is precise enough for the chemist, round it to 3 significant digits. A chemist needs to know the mass of a sample of aniline to 3 significant digits. She puts the sample on a digital scale. This is what the scale shows: If this measurement is precise enough for the chemist, round it to 3 significant digits.
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00:01 So in this question, the scale reading is 0 .009 .01 grams.
00:12 So here we can see that this is only three significant figures, or three significant digits, because the leading zeros out front do not count...
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