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The number of significant figures in the numbers \(4.8000 \times 10^{4}\) and \(48000.50\) are respectively

  1. A 5 and 6
  2. B 5 and 7
  3. C 2 and 7
  4. D 2 and 6
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(B) 5 and 7

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The number of significant figures in \(4.8000 \times 10^{4}\) is 5 (zeros on right after decimal are counted while zeros in powers of 10 are not counted).
The number of significant figures in \(48000.50\) is 7 (all the zeros between two non-zero digits are significant).