GCSE · Rounding & bounds

Rounding and significant figuresExam-style questions

Why significant figures count information rather than decimal places, why the count starts at the first non-zero digit, and why place value must survive the rounding.

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(a) Round $67\,483$ to $1$ significant figure.

(b) Round $0.00568$ to $2$ significant figures.

(c) Round $3.996$ to $2$ decimal places.
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