Taking an educated guess here -- I think it would be 1, 3, and 4 which all seem pretty reasonable.
213,000 can be rewritten as 2.13*10^5. This tells us that it has has 3 significant digits.
Your correct answer is b. It has three significant figures.
The correct answer is "Americans could purchase consumer goods on the installment plan."
Which of the following applies to the consumer economy of the 1920s?
Answer:
Americans could purchase consumer goods on the installment plan.
These installment plans facilitated the purchase of many goods. The plans enabled people to buy on credit.
The era of the 1920s was also known as "the Roaring 1920s."
This was a period of economic prosperity in the United States. Citizens had money and they spend it on necessary and unnecessary things such as cars, furniture, or homes. Most people used credit, generating high debts. The problem was that after the United States stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, millions of Americans lost their jobs, companies had to close, and banks went into bankruptcy. It was the beginning of the Great Depression.