Rounding to significant figures

99.98 to 3 significant figures
Can it apply to this number as if I round to 100 this is one significant figure or we keep it as 99.9. Please clarify

And same number to 2 sig figure
Will it be 100? Or it stays 99
Round to 1 significant figure is 100 for sure .

5 answers

the decimal point after 100 makes all three figures significant
Thanks Scott. I get it about 100. By adding decimal point becomes 3 dig fig
What about rounding 99.98 to 2 sig fig?
100 will have one sig fig
1.0E2 is 100 with two sig fig
Thanks again Scott!
Wow.. 1.0e2 .. didn’t even think that one with this 100 is in 2 sig fig!
Great answer!