Question

State the number of significant figures in the following 5213.0

Answer 1

Answer:

5 significant figures

Explanation:

the terminal and trailing zeros in a number with a decimal point are significant.

Answer 2

Answer:

There are 5 significant figures.

Reasons:-

1) As all the non-zero digits are significant so 5213 , 4 significant

2) And the 0 after the decimal point is also significant , because there is a decimal point but if there will be no decimal point then it will not be significant.