Question

determine the precision of these two approximate values:

a) 3000. ft

b) 1.20 times 10^(--5)ms

^{be careful, first write in std.dec.form}

Answer 1

a)

$\varepsilon_1=±0.5~ft,$

b)

$\varepsilon_2=±0.5\cdot 10^{-6}~ms.$