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Using the rules of significant rules what do you get when you add 24.545 and 307.3?

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When adding and subtracting, significant figures rules say to have as many decimal places as the least amount in your data. So when you add them, round to one decimal place.  This is because 307.3 only has one number after the decimal place. 
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