Question

What is the Greatest Possible Error for the following: 9g, 12.3 L,4 1/2 oz,953 mi, 3 ft, 18.3 m, 350 mi. Help please

Answer 1

The greatest possible error for each of the following will depend on how they are measured. The instrument that is used to measure the various measurements. So do the question provide the instruments that was used or any other detail?

Answer 2

just multiple choice answers lol not really much besides those.

Answer 3

I can post those too.

Answer 4

Just post the options for one of the questions above, so i can get an idea of what the question is expecting

Answer 5

okay this is for 9g

a. 1/2 g
b. 1/4 g
c. 1/6g
d.1/8g

Answer 6

@tiaph

Answer 7

Okay they use a general idea of greatest possible error.

For 9g, the answer is 1/2g. Why?
Because they give you 9g, that means it is measured to be accurate to the nearest ones. When i mean "ones" i mean the position. Like 100 is to the nearest hundred. 10 is to the nearest ten. 0.1 to the nearest one-tenth.

So greatest possible error is half of the ones. Meaning 0.5.

For clarity, i do another example, 12.3L.
it is measured in the nearest one-tenth. Thus the greatest possible error is to the nearest one-tenth. Which is 0.05L. That will be your answer.

So note that greatest possible error is always half of that which the number is nearest to.

Answer 8

Any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Answer 9

thanks so much I had no idea what I was doing

Answer 10

Np! good luck with the rest.

Answer 11

what about 18.3m thats the only one I can't get

Answer 12

@tiaph

Answer 13

18.3 is measured to the nearest one-tenth.

Half of one-tenth is 0.05

Answer 14

so it's just half of whatever measurement it's using?

Answer 15

Yes.

Answer 16

I got 100% lol that was easy once you just clearified that.

Answer 17

Np. Good job.

Answer 18

@SolomonZelman
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