When expressing a number to one significant figure, you round the number to the nearest power of 10. In this case, 9862 to one significant figure would be 10,000. This is because the first digit from the left is 9, which is closer to 10 than 10000.
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Truncated to one significant figure, it's 9,000 .
Rounded to one significant figure, it's 10,000.
It has 1 significant figure.
1150 to 1 significant figure is 1000
9753261 to 1 significant figure is 10,000,000
4252 to 1 significant figure is 4000.
0.019 to 1 significant figure is 0.02 (significant figure is counted from the left with 1st significant being the first non-zero from the left)