How do you round 125679 into 3 significant figures?

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NJ
May 4, 2018

#126000#

Explanation:

#125679#

Keep the first three digits, as they are significant. Then we have to round the number in order to get trailing zeroes, which are not significant.

#125679# gets rounded up to the nearest thousand.

#126000# has three significant figures, because the trailing zeroes are not significant.

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