PRACTICE: Making Measurements - Examples

Use the picture shown...what decimal place should this graduated cylinder be recorded to?

• 1. mL (ones palce)

   

• 10. mL (tens place)

• 0.1 mL (tenths place)

• 0.01 mL (hundredths place)

Pick the best reading.  Pay attention to decimal places

• 26.0^oC

• 26^oC

• 34^oC

• 34.0^oC

How many decimal places should the metric side of the ruler be recorded to?

• ones place (1. cm)

• tenths place (0.1 cm)

• hundredths place (0.01 cm)

• thousandths place (0.001 cm)