How many significant figures will there be in the answer to 223.4times7.5?

Answer 1

In multiplication you use the lowest number of sig figs. if one number has 3 and the other has 5 the answer should be held to 3 digits. If one has a leading zero ( 0.123) the zero is ignored and the sig figs would be 3.

Added:

So the answer to the question "How many significant figures will there be in the answer to 223.4times7.5" is to be TWO in the answer of this multiplication (not 1675.5, not 1700, but 1.7*103)

Answer 2

There will be three significant figures in the answer to 223.4 times 7.5, which is 1675.5. The least number of significant figures in the original numbers (223.4 and 7.5) is 3, so the answer should also have 3 significant figures.