Question #ca04a
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Explanation:
Your tools of choice here will be the following conversion factors
color(blue)(ul(color(black)("1 kg" = 10^3color(white)(.)"g"))) " " and " " color(blue)(ul(color(black)("1 Gg" = 10^9color(white)(.)"g")))
You can combine these two conversion factors to find a single conversion factor that takes you from kilograms to gigagrams.
"1 kg"/(10^3color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g")))) * (10^9 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))))/"1 Gg"= (10^6color(white)(.)"kg")/"1 Gg"
This means that you have
color(blue)(ul(color(black)("1 Gg" = 10^6color(white)(.)"kg")))
You can now use this conversion factor to find the mass of the proton in gigagrams
1.67 * 10^(-27) color(red)(cancel(color(black)("kg"))) * "1 Gg"/(10^6color(red)(cancel(color(black)("kg")))) = color(darkgreen)(ul(color(black)(1.67 * 10^(-33)color(white)(.)"Gg")))
The answer will have three sig figs, the same number of sig figs you have for the mass of the proton in kilograms.
