Siginficant digits?
Folks - I have been told by my teacher 8085 Newtons is wrong becuase of significant digits - I understand that gravity is a constant - but why is 8085 N the wrong answer - please help, my teacher is not cooperative.
Thanks - here is the original question
Vizzini was hired to start a war between Florin and Guilder, which is a prestigious line of work
with a long and glorious tradition. Vizzini's plan is to abduct Princess Buttercup, Prince
Humperdinck's fiance, and kill her on the Guilder frontier, thus...
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Lifting a sail up a mast. Sail is 825 kg, the distance is 5 meters. What's the force required (in Newtons)?
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