High School Physics › Understanding Accuracy and Precision
Which of these is an example of high accuracy?
A bowman is shooting arrows at a target. Which of the following demonstrates high accuracy but low precision?
An brand of fruit snacks claims that each bag of fruit snacks has a mass of . After weighing three bags, Wally observes the masses to be
,
, and
.
How can Wally describe the accuracy and precision of the first bag he measured?
Which of these is an example of high precision?
Michael buys several bags of balloons. On the package, it says that each bag has 100 balloons. He opens the bags and only one of them has 100 balloons inside; the other bags either have too many or too few.
How would you describe the bag of balloons with 100 balloons inside?
Michael's scale measures the mass of objects as consistently less than their actual mass. How would you describe the scale?