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3.200 x 109 has how many sig figs?

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Answer:

It has 4 significant figures

Step-by-step explanation:

Notice the use of scientific notation to indicate that there are two zeros which should be significant. If this number were to be written without scientific notation (3,200,000,000) the significance of those two zeros would be lost and you would - wrongly - say that there were only two significant figures.

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