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How many significant figures should the answer to: 1.00246+0.2400 contain

User Mark Miles
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The final answer should contain atleast 3 significant figures.

I.E: 1.00246 + 0.2400 = 1.24246

We'll keep it to 3 significant figures: 1.24
User Wingedsubmariner
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Seeing as though 0.2400 has 4 sig figs and 1.00246 has 6... you go with the smallest amount of sig figs (4). Once you add it all up the answer is 1.2425 but that has 5 sig figs. So we need to round. The answer would then be 1.243
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