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From Walker, 4th edition solution manual, 2(18):"Insight: This problem illustrates the limitations that significant figures occasionally impose. If you keep an extra figure in the total elapsed time (1.09 h) you’ll end up with the time elapsed for the car trip as 0.25 h, not 0.3, and the speed of the car is 64 km/h. But the rules of subtraction indicate we only know the total time to within a tenth of an hour, so we can only know the time spent in the car to within a tenth of an hour, or to within one significant digit."