Significant Figures: What will the answer be, written to the correct number of...

Carla Barraza

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...significant figures? 47.50 + 0.12307 + 1000.046 = ?

is 1047.67 or 1048? and why?
my understanding is that when comes to addition and substraction, then we go by the less amount of decimal numbers, in this case would be the first number cause it has only 2 decimals rightttttt?
 
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