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Re: Pre-Lab Homework Help
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2019, 03:12:59 PM »
Numbers can be represented in several ways: normal number, number in scientific notation, an aliquot of the SI system. It may depend on the instructor's requirements. But significant numbers are important.

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Re: Pre-Lab Homework Help
« Reply #16 on: September 29, 2019, 03:21:53 PM »
Yeah, I need to work on my understanding of sig figs.

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Re: Pre-Lab Homework Help
« Reply #17 on: September 29, 2019, 03:33:51 PM »
Sig figs are not correct.
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Re: Pre-Lab Homework Help
« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2019, 03:50:06 PM »
I kind of figured they weren’t.

Would it look like

1.79e-3 mol/kg

and

7.0e-4 mol/kg

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Re: Pre-Lab Homework Help
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2019, 03:55:15 PM »
I accept.
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Re: Pre-Lab Homework Help
« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2019, 04:09:38 PM »
Yay! Thank you so much for the help, and hints. I just needed that little push.

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