Products and Quotients
المؤلف:
D. A. Skoog, F. J.Holler, D M. West, and S. R. Crouch
المصدر:
Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry
الجزء والصفحة:
9th. p 116
2-5-2017
1985
Products and Quotients
Sometimes it is suggested for multiplication and division that the answer should be rounded so that it contains the same number of significant digits as the original number with the smallest number of significant digits. Unfortunately, this procedure sometimes leads to incorrect rounding. For example, consider the two calculations
If we follow the suggestion, the first answer would be rounded to 1.1 and the second to 0.96. A better procedure is to assume unit uncertainty in the last digit of each number. For example, in the first quotient, the relative uncertainties associated with each of these numbers are 1/24, 1/452, and 1/1000. Because the first relative uncertainty is much larger than the other two, the relative uncertainty in the result is also /24; the absolute uncertainty is then
By the same argument, the absolute uncertainty of the second answer is given by
Therefore, the first result should be rounded to three significant figures or 1.08, but the second should be rounded to only two, that is, 0.96.
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