(4.123 × 0.12) + 24.2 why is the answer 25 and not 24.7? The last rule to be used is the addition, which meant I would round to 1 decimal place in this case.  Yet the final answer is rounded to two significant figures (multiplication rule), why is this?

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(4.123 × 0.12) + 24.2

why is the answer 25 and not 24.7?

The last rule to be used is the addition, which meant I would round to 1 decimal place in this case. 

Yet the final answer is rounded to two significant figures (multiplication rule), why is this?

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