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- Give the spacing of the tool's marks and the greatest possible error for each reading.48 \pm 0.5\text{ cm}2.35 \pm 0.005\text{ m}310 \pm 5\text{ g}12.6 \pm 0.05\text{ s}75 \pm 2.5\text{ mL}
- Word problem: the rope that remains after cutting, measured to the nearest centimeter.
- Word problem: a measuring wheel reading with an absolute error.
- Word problem: a treadmill that drops digits instead of rounding.
- Compare readings from two home scales against a vet's true mass.
- Word problem: the width of a row of 20 lockers and the error in it.
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Measurement error: the lesson ›More Chapter 4 worksheets: Percent applications and percent change
- 4.1Finding what percent one number is of another
- 4.2Finding the whole from a part and a percent
- 4.3Solving percent problems with an equation or a proportion
- 4.4Percents above 100 and below 1
- 4.5Percent increase and decrease
- 4.6The multiplier for a percent change
- 4.7Two percent changes one after the other
- 4.8Discounts, sales tax, tips and commission
- 4.9Markup and margin
- 4.10Simple interest
- 4.11Measurement error
- 4.12Percent error