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School ID: 478017
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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET LAS No. 14

Name: ___________________________________________________
Grade Level and Section: 8 -_________________ Score: __________________
Subject: SCIENCE 8.2 (Introduction to Chemistry) Date: __________________
Type of Activity:
Concept Notes Laboratory Report Formal Theme Others:
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Skills/ Exercise/ Drills Drawing/ Art Informal Theme _________________
Activity Title: Significant Figures
Learning Target: To identify the significant figures of a measured quantity.
Reference: Bayquen, Aristea V., Chemistry, pp. 20-22
Stoker, H. Stephen, Exploring General, Organic and Biological Chemistry, page 24

Measurement is the determination of the dimensions, capacity, quantity, or extent of

something. In chemical laboratories, the most common types of measurements are those of
mass, volume, length, time, temperature, pressure, and concentration. All the digits that are
part of a measurement are called significant figures or significant digits.

Rules for Determining Significant Figures:

Rule 1: All nonzero digits are significant.
For example, 791.22 m has five significant digits, and 32.54 cm has four significant
digits.

Rule 2: All zeros to the left of the first nonzero digit are not significant; they are
merely decimal placeholders to show the position of the decimal point.
For example, 0.0036 g has two significant digits.

Rule 3: Zeros between nonzero digits are always significant.

For example, 20003 Kg has five significant digits; 0.00005005 m has four significant
digits.

Rule 4: Zeros that follow nonzero digits and are on the right of the decimal point are
significant digits.
For example, 129.0 m has four significant digits; 0.350 s has three significant digits

Rule 5: Trailing zeros are ambiguous; they may or may not be significant. These are
zeros to the right of nonzero digits in numbers that contain no decimal point.
For example 54000 m has five significant digits if it is measured to the nearest 1m or
two significant digits if it is measured only to the nearest 1000 m. The ambiguity comes
from the fact that zeros may be part of the measurement or they may be placeholder.
This ambiguity may be resolved by expressing the number in scientific notation.

Exercises: Identify the number of significant figures in each of the following quantities.
1. 40.5 g 6. 41.0 oC
2. 40.500 m 7. 3100 mL
3. 0.045 L 8. 0.008020 Pa
4. 45.000 cm 9. 10.00 mg
5. 45 Kg 10. 560 mm

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 RC- AL KHWARIZMI INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC.
SCIENCE LABORATORY SCHOOL
Barrio Marawi, National Highway, Marawi City
School ID: 478017
S.Y. 2020-2021

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

LAS No. 15
Name: ___________________________________________________
Grade Level and Section: 8 -_________________ Score: __________________
Subject: SCIENCE 8.2 (Introduction to Chemistry) Date: __________________
Type of Activity:
Concept Notes Laboratory Report Formal Theme Others:
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Skills/ Exercise/ Drills Drawing/ Art Informal Theme _________________
Activity Title: Significant Figures in Addition or Subtraction and Multiplication or Division
Learning Target: To add, subtract measurements in the correct number of significant figures.
Reference: Bayquen, Aristea V., Chemistry, page 22

Addition and Subtraction

When adding or subtracting, round off the answer so that it has the same number of
decimal places as the quantity with the least number of decimal places :
Sample for Addition:

Sample for Subtraction:

Multiplication and Division

When multiplying and dividing round off the answer so that it has the same of significant
figures as the quantity with the fewest significant figures :
Sample for Division:

The answer is rounded off to four significant digits. Therefore the answer is 19.09 km.

Sample for Multiplication:

The answer is rounded off to three significant digits. Thus, the answer is 62.9cm3.

NOTE: In rounding off numbers, if the number following the digits to be kept for the answer
is less than 5, the digits kept are not altered but if it is 5 or greater, add 1 to the digit kept.

EXERCISES: Solve the following. Express the answers in the correct number of
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significant figures.
1) 1.48 m - 0.271 m 3) 10.40 m x 2.83 m
2) 5.133 cm + 184.0cm + 5.6 cm 4) 9 g ÷ 81 g

Activity Title: Scientific Notation

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 RC- AL KHWARIZMI INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC.
SCIENCE LABORATORY SCHOOL
Barrio Marawi, National Highway, Marawi City
School ID: 478017
S.Y. 2020-2021

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

Name: ___________________________________________________
Grade Level and Section: 8 -_________________ Score: __________________
Subject: SCIENCE 8.2 (Introduction to Chemistry) Date: __________________
Type of Activity:
Concept Notes Laboratory Report Formal Theme Others:
z
Skills/ Exercise/ Drills Drawing/ Art Informal Theme _________________
Learning Target: To convert decimal to scientific notation.
Reference: Stoker, H. Stephen, Exploring General, Organic and Biological Chemistry, pp. 34-35

Scientific notation is a numerical system in which numbers are expressed in the form

 where A is a number with a single nonzero digit to the left of the decimal place, n is a
whole number.
 The number A is called the coefficient. The number 10 n is called the exponential term.
The coefficient is always multiplied by the exponential term.

Converting from Decimal to Scientific Notation:

 The procedure for converting a number from decimal notation to scientific notation
has two parts.
 The decimal point in the decimal number is moved to the position behind (to the right
of) the first nonzero digit.
 The exponent for the exponential term is equal to the number of places the decimal
point has been moved. The exponent is positive if the original decimal number is 10 or
greater and is negative if the original decimal number is less than 1. For numbers
between 1 and 10, the exponent is zero.

The following two examples illustrate the use of these procedures:

Note that only significant figures become part of the coefficient. Example:

EXERCISES:
A. Convert the following numbers in B. Convert the following scientific
decimal notation to scientific notation notation to standard number. (e.g.
having three significant figures. 2.6x103  2600)
1) 602 000 000 000 000 000 1) 1.02x102
2) 0.000000000000000909 2) 3.15x10-5
3) 22500 3) 5.5x105
4) 0.0000456 4) 2.20x101
5) 23150000 5) 6.02 x10-6

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