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Transcribed Image Text:How should the computed result be reported, to the proper number of significant figures, for the following set of
0.0053
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mathematical operations? (112.2 - 5.2) ×
A. 0.2040
B. 0.20
C. 0.204
D. 0.20399
O E. 0.2
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