Significant figures
Level
1
How many significant figures are in 1.094
The answer is 4.
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1 solution
Start with a decimal. Going from left to right, the first non-zero digit is the first significant figure. Each digit to its right is a significant figure and if there are all zeroes at the end omit it. eg: 3.14159 has six significant digits and 1000 has only one significant digit