Answer to Question #118912 in General Chemistry for Amin green

Question

A cubic box measures 37.8 cm on an edge. What is the volume of the box in cubic centimeters? Express the answer to the correct number of significant figures.

Answer 1

$Volume=37.8^3 cc=54010.152 cc$

Now, the least number of signinficant digits in the multiplication operation are 3, thus result must also contain 3 significant digits only.

Hence, Volume $=54.0*10^3cc$