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Question
Which of the following is expressed in engineering notation?
Options
A. 470 × 10
5
B. 82 × 10
?2
C. 9.1 × 10
?6
D. 14.7 × 10
8
Correct Answer
9.1 × 10
?6
Quantities and Units problems
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1. Dividing 24 × 10
11
by 3 × 10
4
equals
Options
A. 8 × 10
4
B. 8 × 10
7
C. 8 × 10
11
D. 8 × 10
15
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Correct Answer: 8 × 10
7
2. Pico is what relation to micro?
Options
A. one-tenth
B. one-hundredth
C. one-thousandth
D. one-millionth
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Correct Answer: one-millionth
3. Another name for "fundamental units" is
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A. base units
B. atoms
C. the metric system
D. letter symbols
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Correct Answer: base units
4. If you drop a 5 when rounding a number, you are using the
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A. round-to-even rule
B. significant digit rule
C. round-off rule
D. retained digit rule
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Correct Answer: round-to-even rule
5. What is the current through the diode?
Options
A. 1 mA
B. 0.975 mA
C. 0.942 mA
D. 0.0 mA
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Correct Answer: 1 mA
6. A measure of the repeatability of a measurement of some quantity is
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A. error
B. precision
C. accuracy
D. significant
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Correct Answer: precision
7. When using the terms "accuracy" and "precision" for measurements
Options
A. "precision" implies less measurement error than "accuracy"
B. "accuracy" implies less measurement error than "precision"
C. "precision" measures the repeatability of a measurement
D. both terms mean the same thing
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Correct Answer: "precision" measures the repeatability of a measurement
8. The number 14.8 can also be expressed as
Options
A. 1.48 × 10
?1
B. 1.48 × 10
0
C. 1.48 × 10
1
D. 1.48 × 10
2
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Correct Answer: 1.48 × 10
1
9. Scientific notation is a method
Options
A. of expressing a very large number
B. of expressing a very small number
C. used to make calculations with large and small numbers
D. All of the above
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Correct Answer: All of the above
10. The digits in a measured number that are known to be correct are called
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A. accuracy digits
B. significant digits
C. error digits
D. precision digits
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Correct Answer: significant digits
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