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Given information

Given:

Number =  

 

Find :

Significant figures =?

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Significant figure rules:

  • All non-zero digits are significant.
  • Interior zeros (present between the nonzero digits) are significant.
  • Leading zeros (present at the beginning of a number) are not significant.
  • Trailing zeros (present at the end of a number) are not significant.
  • Trailing zeros present after the decimal are significant.

In the given number , there are 3 non-zero digits that are significant and two trailing zeros that are not significant.

Hence there are three significant figures in .

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