Question

A grocery store sells 5-lb bags of mangoes. You purchase four bags over the course
of a month and weigh the mangoes cach time. You obtain the following
measurements:
Week 1 weight: 4.8 lb
Week 2 weight: 5.3 lb
Week 3 weight: 4.9 lb
Week 4 weight: 5.4 lb
is the measurement accurate or precise?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Accurate

Explanation:

Accuracy deals with the nearness of the measured values to the true value.

Precision is the ability to reproduce a certain result in a repeated fashion.

• From the given masses of the 5-lb bags, we see that the mean value of the measurement is 5.1-lb
• This value is very close to the original mass of the bag which is 5-lb bags.
• We can say the reading is accurate

The reading is not precise because, the same weight is not reproduced. Different values of weight was reported from each of the measurement process.