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Q. According to significant figure convention, the result obtained by adding $12.11,18.0$ and $1.012$ is

TS EAMCET 2015

Solution:

According to significant figure convention, during adding, the number of decimal places in the answer should not exceed the number of decimal places in either the numbers.


$12.11 $

$18.0 $

$11.012 $

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$ 31.122$

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$18.0$ has only one digit after the decimal point, thus the result should be reported only upto one digit after the decimal point which is $31.1$.