You measure water in two containers: a 10-ml graduated cylinder with marks at every ml, and a 1 - ml pipet marked at every 0.1 ml. if you have some water in each of the containers and add them together, to what decimal place could you report the total volume of water?

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Ernesto Patton

10 August, 04:33

You measure water in two containers: a 10-ml graduated cylinder with marks at every ml, and a 1 - ml pipet marked at every 0.1 ml. if you have some water in each of the containers and add them together, to what decimal place could you report the total volume of water?

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Stephen Rubio · Answer 1

One decimal place.

The reading in graduated cylinder is marked after every 1 mL and that of pipette at every 0.1 mL. If same amount of water is taken from both the containers. The sum of volume of water will take the minimum decimal places. Precise value of volume is calculated using pipette as it has markup after every 0.1 mL, the lowest decimal place will be 1 decimal place (0.1).