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3 years ago

Significant digits are the number of digits that reflect the precision of a measurement or number.

Chemistry

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Delvig [45]3 years ago

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Answer:

True

Explanation:

Significant digits are numbers that helps to present the precision of measurements calculations.

Numbers that do not contribute to the precision of a reading should not be counted as significant.

There are rules of assigning significant numbers:

Leading or trailing zeros are insignificant and should only be counted as a place holder.
All non-zero digits are significant
Zeroes between non-zero digits are significant.
Leading zeros in a decimal are significant before the number.
All the numbers in a scientific notation are significant.

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