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HOW MANY SIGNIFICANT FIGURES ARE THERE IN THE NUMBER 405,000?
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HOW MANY SIGNIFICANT FIGURES ARE THERE IN THE NUMBER 405,000?

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Three, but see below.

Step-by-step explanation:

You can be certain of three, but that may not be true at all. The only way to know for certain is to put it into scientific notation.

4.05 * 10^5 would be three, but other answers are possible. For example

4.050 * 10^5 would have 4.

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