Round 5,000.083 to three significant figure.

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5,000.080
Three significant digits:

5, 8, and the 0 after 8
Three significant digits means counting from the left, starting with the first non-zero digit.
Do not add a decimal point unless it is buried in the three significant digits, so
5,000.080
becomes
5,000
5000.083
500.
5,000.083

Since the leftmost digit (5) is to the left of the decimal, we need to keep the 5, and then 2 additional digits, for a total of 3 significant figures.

If we rounded the number off to "5000" as some have suggested, that's only one significant figure.

If we round off to 5000.1 (for example), that's 5 significant figures. In fact, if we keep anything to the right of the decimal point around, we're already expressing at LEAST 5 significant figures.

In this case, we must use scientific notation to ensure that the 0's that we specify are significant, and that we only limit to a total of 3 significant figures.

5,000.083 can be rewritten as :
5,000.083 * 10^0
Which can be rewritten as
5.000083 * 10^3

Now, it's easy to see the express only 3 significant figures!

5.00 * 10^3
perform the indicated operations and give answer with the proper number of digit 451 g-15.46g -20.3
5.00×10^3 b/c the number 5.00 has 3 significant figure to simplify this expression we must use scientific notation 5.00 ×10^3 =50000
This means 50000 ~ 5000.083
We need to define with scientific notations so 5.00×10 the power of 3
5.00×103
5.00×10^3
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