When multiplying or dividing, the final answer will have the same number of significant figures as the term with the fewest significant figures in the calculation. Always complete the calculation without rounding first to avoid errors.

 has eight significant figures.

 has six significant figures.

Our final answer will have six significant figures.

Solve the expression and round:

Rounding to six significant figures gives us .

This question requires that we first add, then multiply.

When adding or subtracting, the final answer will have the same number of decimal places as the term with the fewest decimal places in the calculation. Always complete the calculation without rounding first to avoid errors.

7.1g has only one decimal place, so we round our answer to 20.7g.

Next, multiply the mass by the cost per gram. When multiplying or dividing, the final answer will have the same number of significant figures as the term with the fewest significant figures in the calculation. Always complete the calculation without rounding first to avoid errors.

20.7g has only three significant figures, so we round our answer to $767.00. Note that the zeroes after the decimal are insignificant.

When performing addition or subtraction in chemistry you can only be as precise as the number with the fewest number of decimal not significant figures. Because  only has 1 decimal place the answer of the addition problem can only have 1 decimal place. All of the other numbers have more than 1 decimal place so that is why the other answers are incorrect.

When performing multiplication and division in chemistry, the answer to the question can only have as many significant figures as the number with the fewest number of significant figures.

 has 4 significant figures

 has 2 significant figures

 has 3 significant figures

 has 3 significant figures

Thus the answer must have 2 significant figures because  only has 2 significant figures.

disregarding significant figures. However to round to 2 significant figures, the answer becomes 

To round a number to 3 significant figures count to the 3rd significant figure and apply the rules of rounding to the next number. If the next number is 5 or higher round up, if it is 4 or below round down.

The 3rd significant figure is the 7. The next number is an 8 so the 7 is rounded up to an 8. As there are 4 places before the decimal point this answer must have 4 places

 rounds to  with three significant figures.

The other answers are wrong because:

 has 4 significant figures due to the decimal point

 rounds in the wrong direction

 only has 2 significant figures

 does not have the same amount of places before the decimal point

 follows the rules of significant figures.

1. Any digit 1-9 is always significant (So the 8 and the 3 are significant)

2. Any zero sandwiched between two digits 1-9 is always significant (No 0 in this case is significant because of this rule)

3. If the number is larger than 1 and there is no decimal point,  a zero at the end is NOT significant (trailing zero rule, no zeros are a part of this rule)

4. If the number is less than 1 any 0 before the first nonzero digit is not significant (leading zero rule)

In the number 0.000830 the bolded zeros are not significant because they are leading zeros

5. If a number has a decimal point, any zero that follows a non-zero digit is significant. 

0.000830 is the number. The last 0 follows a 3 and this number has a decimal point so it is significant. Totaling the significant figures, we have 3 sig figs.

0.000830  3 Significant Figures.

Remember, when adding or subtracting, the answer uses the least number of decimal places. 1542 has the least number of decimal places (numbers after a decimal) because it has none. So the answer just needs to lack any decimal places.

When multiplying or dividing, the answer uses the least number of significant figures of the given values. 12 had the least number of significant figures (2), so the answer must have 2 significant figures as well.

Remember: when multiply or dividing, the answer uses the least number of significant figures of the given values. Here, 45.51 has the least number of significant figures (4), which is why the answer must also have 4 significant figures.

When dealing with decimal numbers, zeros only count as long as there is a non-zero number somewhere before them. The first 4 zeros have no non-zero number before them, so they don't count as significant figures. The last 2 zeros have a 5 in front of them, so those zeros count as significant figures, and so does that 5; which gives us a total of 3 significant figures.