Chapter 1, Problem 1.52E

Standard printer and copier paper is the United States is 81/2 in. by 11 in. What are these dimensions in centimeters?

A gas can is found to have a volume of 9.10 liters. What is the volume of this gas can in gallons?

A listing of a house for sale states that there are 5bedrooms, 4000 ft2 of living area, and a living room with dimensions 1718.5 ft. How many significant figures are there in each quantity? (Your answer may include the words ambiguous and exact.)

The cup is a measure of volume widely used in cook-books. One cup is equivalent to 225 mL. What is the density of clover honey (in grams per milliliter) if three quarters of a cup has a mass of 252 g?

The payload of a small pickup truck is 1450 pounds assume three significant figures. What is this in kilograms?

A typical laboratory beaker has a volume of 250. mL What is its volume in cubic centimeters? In liters? In cubic meters?In cubic decimeters?

A basketball game at the University of Connecticut's Gampel Pavilion attracted 10,000 people. The building's in-terior floor space has an area of 1.71105 ft2. Tickets to the game sold for $22.00. Senior citizens were given a 20% discount. How many significant figures are there in each quantity? (Your answer may include the words ambiguous and exact.)

A standard U.S. postage stamp is 2.5 cm long and 2.1 cm wide. What is the area of the stamp in square centimeters? In square meters?

The beakers shown below have different precisions. a. Label the amount of water in each of the three beakers to the correct number of significant figures. b. Is it possible for each of the three beakers to contain the exact same amount of water? If no, why not? If yes, did you report the volumes as the same in part a? Explain. c. Suppose you pour the water from these three beakers into one container. What should be the volume in the container reported to the correct number of significant figures?