Question

How many significant figures are in the following measurements? a. 3000000000 m/sA bike rider accelerates uniformaly at 2.0m/s^2 in 7.0 s. What was the speed of the object after 2.0 seconds?

Answer 1

Answer: 1 sig fig

Explanation: because 0s aren‘t significant and yes decimal points matter but after the decimal it’s a 0. So it is 1. If it was 0.30 it would be 2 sig figs but 0.03 would be one sig fig.