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Significant figures indicate the precision of a measurement.
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What is a measurement close to true size?
A measurement close to true size is referred to as Precision Measurement.
What is scientific measurement based on?
precision and accuracy
What are accuracy and precision and what is the difference between accuracy and precision?
Imagine a dartboard. An accurate measurement would be analogous to hitting the bulls-eye. While a precise measurement is just the tight clustering of shots.
How is the precision of a calculated result related to the precision of the measurements used in the calculation?
the precision of the answer must have the same number of significant digits as the measurement with the least significant digits- the site explains the rules and how to identify significant digits
Compares a measurement to the real or accepted value?
accuracy. precision how closely the group of data are in relation to each other
What is meant by precision of the measurement?
Precision of a measurement represents the numerical values which represent the dimensions of the instrument measured more accurately.Precised values are nearer t accuracy with negligible error.
How do accuracy and precision of measurement affect calculated values and percent error?
The more precise your instruments of measurement are, the less percentage of error you will have.
What describes the two parts of a measurement?
Accuracy. How close you are to your expected value. Precision. How close together you values are.
What is a example of a precision measurement is a reading of?
An example of a precision measurement is a reading of
What is precision measure?
Precision measurement is that which has maximum uncertainity
Do precision and accuracy mean the same thing in science?
Precision and accuracy do not mean the same thing in science. Precision refers to how well experimental data and values agree with each other in multiple tests. Accuracy refers to the correctness of a single measurement. It is determined by comparing the measurement against the true or accepted value.
Why is precision in measurement important?
Precision shows how well the object is moving.
The degree of exactness of a measurement?
precision
What are values that indicate the precision of a measurement?
I'm not sure if this helps but in physics if I say that something is 1cm long it could be 0.1cm long or 1.9cm long. If I say that something is 1.00cm long or means I have a ruler that measures mm. So the amount of decimal places indicates the precision of the measurement. Hope this helps
Is a accurate measurement automatically precise?
An automatically measurement has a higher precision than a manually measurement.
What determines the precision of a calculated result based on measurement's?
the precision of the least precise measuement
What determines the precision of a calculated result based on measurement?
the precision of the least precise measuement
