The answer to the correct number of significant figures is 0.171.
What are the significant numbers?
The numbers 1 to 9 will always be significant figures. Leading zeros of a number are not significant figures. Zeros to the right of a number are significant figures.
In this case we have:
[tex]0.97584/5.68 = 0.171[/tex]
So you only need the three numbers after the dot.
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