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False, Zeros are only significant digits when there is a primary number such as 1 before the as in 3200, then two zeros are counted but if zeros are before as in 0.032 than the only digits counted are 3 and 2.
There are two significant figures in 2400. You can "dump" the zeros in a case like this. If the number was 55,000, you could dump the zeros there, too, and there'd be two significant figures.When working with a whole number (an integer), you can dump all the zeros to the left of the decimal until you reach the first nonzero digit. In the case of 343,505,000, you can only dump the 3 zeros, so there are 6 significant digits. If 12,005 is what you're working with, you can't dump any zeros and you have 5 significant figures. It's that simple with numbers that don't have any digits to the right of the decimal.There are 2 significant figures in 2400; they are 2 and 4.
In the number 0.09040, the insignificant digit is the last zero on the right. This is because trailing zeros to the right of the decimal point and after any non-zero digits are considered insignificant. The significant digits in this number are 9, 0, 4, and 0 from left to right.
The leading digits refers to the first numbers in the typical way from left to right. For instance, for a number like 2837. 258, the leading digits are 2 and 8.
No. In a number like 0.057030:The first and second zeroes are not significant.The third zero is significant.The fourth and last zero is also significant - if it weren't, it wouldn't be printed.