HELP!! MEDAL!!
Suppose you find a rug to put under your table. You measure the rug with quarter-inch accuracy and find the dimensions to be 49.25 inches by 69.75 inches.
Calculate the area of the rug, without rounding to the correct number of significant figures.

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perl · Answer

What does this say here
"Calculate the area of the rug, without rounding to the correct number `if significant figures.`"

perl · Answer

can you check you copied that correctly

perl · Answer

oh that should say 'without rounding to the correct number `of` significant figures'

clamin · Answer

im sorry its 'of'

clamin · Answer

@perl

campbell_st · Answer

the measurements have 4 significant figures...... when you multiply the 2 numbers each with 2 decimal places... then answer will contain 4 decimal places... 

so I'd expect that the accracy would need to be 4 decimal places...