Your true height is 704 inches A tape measure that can be re

Your true height is 70.4 inches. A tape measure that can be read to the nearest tenth of an inch gives your height as 70.5 inches. A second tape measure which can be read to the nearest eighth of an inch gives your height as 70 3/8

(70three eighths3/8) inches. Which of these two measurement is more precise? Explain in detail why it is more precise than the othert

Solution

Actual height = 70.4 inch

Height measure by the tape that can read to nearest 10th of an inch = 70.5 inch

Height measure by tape that can read to nearesr 8th of an inch = 70 3/8 = 70.375 inch.

So height measured by the tape that can read nearest to 10th of an inch is more precise because it is more close to the actual height as well as also least count of this tape is 0.1 inch which is more than the least count of of the tape that reads nearest to eight of an inch.