The number of significant digits to report in the answer is always the least number of significant figures that can be found in the question.
<h3>What are significant figures?</h3>
The term significant figures refers to the non zero digits in a number . It is those numbers that can be assigned a value in any string of digits. In mathematics, we often carry out operations such as addition, subtraction, division and multiplication.
The number of significant digits to report in the answer is always the least number of significant figures that can be found in the question.