An instrument is used to measure a quantity at different time instances, and the expected values of the quantity are to be the same; however, the measured values are different. A set of 5 measurements that were recorded at different time instances are 98, 101, 99, 100 and 102. Find the precision of the third measurement.

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  1. 0.95
  2. 0.1
  3. 0.99
  4. 0.9

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Option 3 : 0.99
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Concept: 

Precision: A measurement of consistency or repeatability of measurement i.e., successive reading does not differ.

The average of the measured value is given by,

Where Xis the recorded readings, n is no. of recorded readings.

Precision for particular reading is given by,

Precision 

Calculation:

The average measurement value

Given third measurement reading  = 99

The 3rd reading precision is given as

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