Rules for Counting Significant Figures

For Multiplication and division. the number of significant figures in the result is the same as the number of significant figures in that measurement used to obtain the result that has the smallest (or smaller, if only two numbers are involved) number of significant figures in it. Example 1: 4800 / 300.0 = 16. 2 sig figs. 2 sig. figs. 4 sig. figs. ................
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