When 8982 rounded to 2 significant figures, the answer is 9000. But according to the rule, if a number does not have a decimal, then don't count the zero after the last non-zero digit, which in this is 9. So according to me, 9000 only has 1 significant figure, but as for the question, it says round 8982 to two significant figures and the answer is 9000, and they include the first zero after 9 as significant. Can someone help?

Need now max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.