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How many significant figures are in the measurement 40 500 mg?

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3 significant figures

User Tomislav Dyulgerov
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40,500 mg---> 3 SF Zeros to the left of an understood decimal point and at tge same time to the right of a non zero number and not significant. The zero in between non zeros(4&5) is significant.
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