Question

A student measures the mass of an object at 4.68 g and the volume of the object at 2.3 mL. The student calculated the density as 2.03478 g/mL. A second student disagrees with the density. Which of the following statements would explain why the second student disagrees?

The number of decimals in the answer does not show proper precision.

Answer 1

2.3 mL has only 2 significant figures.

An accurate solution can have only 2 significant figures (density = 2.0)