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Problem 30E

Section 1.8 Units and Significant Figures

Estimate (don’t measure!) the length of a typical car. Give your answer in both feet and meters. Briefly describe how you arrived at this estimate.

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Problem 30E

Section 1.8 Units and Significant Figures

Estimate (don’t measure!) the length of a typical car. Give your answer in both feet and meters. Briefly describe how you arrived at this estimate.

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Here we need to estimate the length of the car roughly in feet and meters.

The length of the car is roughly three times the length of the person. The average length of a person is , so the length of the car will be around  to .

Hence the length of car will be  in two significant digits.

 

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