The first two significant figures are 5 and 2. As the next digit is 4 the 2 stays as it is. Therefore 5246 rounds to 5200 to 2 significant figures. (Notice that we must put in zeros to keep the ...

Another way of rounding numbers is to count only the first few digits (maybe \(1\), \(2\) or \(3\) figures) that have a value attached to them. This method of rounding is called significant ...