Scientific Notation
Error Analysis
Sig Figs
Mega Metric Mania
Dimensional Analysis
100
What is 100 in scientific notation?
What is 1.00x10^2
100
What do you call human error?
Non-systemic error
100
How man significant figures are in 525?
3
100
What is the abbreviation for mega meter?
Mm
100
How many pizzas are made from 100 slices? (1 pizza = 8 slices) You must show dimensional analysis.
12.5 pizzas
200
What is 103000 in scientific notation?
1.03x10^5
200
What do you call non-human error?
Systemic error
200
How many sig figs are in 100500
4
200
hm is an abbreviation for what?
hectometer
200
The average lung capacity of an adult human male is 6 liters. How many breaths would it take to fill a 2 kL balloon?
334 breaths
300
What is 0.00010 in scientific notation?
1x10^-4
300
A police officer missed the bullseye during target practice but hits the top right corner over and over. Are his measurements precise, accurate, or both?
Precise but not accurate.
300
How many sig figs are in 0.000450
3
300
How many cm are in a m?
100 cm
300
If the average caloric need of AFSE students is 2500 calories per day, how many days will is take 250 students to consume 1,000,000 calories?
1.6 days
400
What is 100.95x10^3 in scientific notation?
1.0095x10^5
400
A forensic scientist collects a sample of blood from a crime scene. 22 of 25 genes come back a match for a certain suspect. Set up the calculation for the percent error in this measurement and provide an answer.
(22-25)/25 x 100 = 12%
400
What is 3.90 x 12.00? Answer must be shown with the correct significant figures.
46.8
400
Come up with a new way to remember metric prefixes for kilo, hecto, deca, basic, deci, centi, and mili. Example "King Henry Died by Drinking Chocolate Milk"
See boards.
400
We should all consume a minimum of 90mg of vitamin C daily. How many kg of vitamin C should our country consume each day if our country's population is 314 million people?
28,260 kg
500
A hair was measured to be 9.10x10^-5 meters. Write this measurement in expanded form.
0.0000910 meters
500
An uncalibrated machine cuts bullets for a gun. The diameter of a 12.7mm bullet is accidentally cut to 12.8mm. What is the percent error in this cut? Show your answer using 3 sig figs.
0.781%
500
What is 1000.81 - 0.701? Answer must have the correct number of significant figures.
1000.11
500
How many kilometers are in 25 micrometers? Answers must be expressed in scientific notation.
2.5x10^-8
500
Hot summers can lead to lots of AC use. Depending on the size, an AC costs about 6 cents per hour to run. If the bills for July and August increased by an average of $31.40 for each month, how many hours per day was the AC running?
17 hours