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guapka [62]
1 year ago
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a student measures the mass of a metal weight using three separate balances and collects the following data: 38.7g, 38.9g and 38

.6g. The actual mass of the weight is 34.2 g. Evaluate the accuracy and precision of this student's measurements.
Physics
1 answer:
Lesechka [4]1 year ago
6 0

The values are precise because the values are close together but they are not accurate because they are all far from the true value.

<h3>What is the accuracy and precision?</h3>

The term accuracy refers to how much close to the true or the actual value that a measurement is. The precision refer to how close together the values that are obtained in a series of measurements are.

Now, we have the values that were obtained as; 38.7g, 38.9g and 38.6g. We can see that values are precise because the values are close together but they are not accurate because they are all far from the true value.

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