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Description

This tutorial provides a brief review of the guides for determining how many significant figures to include when reporting your answer in a chemistry calculation. Guided practice in performing significant figures calculations is provided.

Resource Type	Tutorial ChemCollective tutorials walk students through solving chemistry problems movies, text, and interactive tutors. Because the hints given by these tutors ultimately provide the solution to the problem, they are similar to worked examples in a textbook. Currently, we have tutorials covering concepts in stoichiometry, buffers, and equilibrium.
Topic(s)	Stoichiometry
Subtopic(s)	The Mole, Molarity, and Density
Education Level	Middle School Science High School / Introductory Chemistry First-Year Undergraduate / General
Difficulty	Introductory
Publication Date	2011-02-15
Contributor(s)	Mr. Michael Karabinos, Carnegie Mellon University Mr. Tim Palucka, Dr. Jordi Cuadros, Instituto Químico de Sarriá