Lab Classes

Question 1

What is accuracy?

Answer 1

The closeness of a result to its true value; how close the average of measured results is to the actual value.

Question 2

What is the accepted degree of accuracy?

Answer 2

+-10%

Question 3

What is precision?

Answer 3

the extent to which results agree with each other; how consistent the results are

Question 4

What is the accepted degree of precision?

Answer 4

All the values fall within +-7.5% of the actual value.