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43472 rounded to 3 significant figures

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Answer: 43500

Step-by-step explanation

Circle or highlight the first three nonzero digits. That would be the 434.

Just after that is 7. The 7 fits the "5 or more" criteria, so we bump 434 up to 435. Everything afterward is replaced with 0s.

43472 rounds to 43500 when rounding to 3 sig figs.

The zeros in 43500 are not significant. If we wanted them to be significant, then we'd put a decimal point after the last zero.

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