Why is .001 more precise than .01?

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anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

If you measure something to .001, then you're about to wrong $\pm .0005$.
If you measure something to .01, then you're about to wrong $\pm .005$.
Then we say: wrong about $\pm .0005$ is more precise than wrong about $\pm .005$

anonymous · Answer

thats confusing...sorry i am only in 7th grade lol

anonymous · Answer

Heheh, sorry. Any other idea to explain this? Anyone?

anonymous · Answer

the definition of precise is a description of how close each measurement are to each other.

anonymous · Answer

Yep, correct.

anonymous · Answer

so i still don't no it doesn't make sense to me  haha

btaylor · Answer

it isn't more precise. There is, in both cases, must 1 significant figure. It it more exact, but the precision is based on number of significant figures.