Elementary Technical Mathematics

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1285199197
ISBN 13: 978-1-28519-919-1

Chapter 4 - Review - Page 208: 31

Answer

0.00032, 0.03%

Work Step by Step

For the measurement $15.60~cm$, we have The precision is $0.01 cm$ (because the last digit $0$ is in the $0.01$ place). The greatest possible error is one-half the precision: $0.5\cdot 0.01\ cm=0.00 5 \ cm$ The relative error is $relative~error=\dfrac{greatest~possible~error}{measurement}$ $\frac{0.005\ cm}{15.60\ cm}=0.00032$ The percent of error is: $0.03\%$
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