7 Sci Ch 1-4 vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
estimate | An approximation of a number based on reasonable assumption. |
accuracy | How close a measurement is to the true or accepted value. |
precision | How close a group of measurements are to each other. |
significant figures | All the digits in a measurement that have been measured exactly, plus on digit whose value has been estimated. |
percent error | A calculation used to determine how accurate, or close to the true value, an experimental value really is. |
mean | The numerical average of a set of date. |
median | The middle number in a set of data. |
mode | The number that appears most often in a list of numbers. |
range | The difference between the greatest value and the least value in a set of data. |
anomalous data | Data that do not fit with the rest of a data set. |
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