Solution: As you eat your way through a bag of chocolate

Chapter 1, Problem 1.55

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QUESTION:

As you eat your way through a bag of chocolate chip cookies, you observe that each cookie is a circular disk with a diameter of 8.50 { 0.02 cm and a thickness of 0.050 { 0.005 cm. (a) Find the average volume of a cookie and the uncertainty in the volume. (b) Find the ratio of the diameter to the thickness and the uncertainty in this ratio.

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QUESTION:

As you eat your way through a bag of chocolate chip cookies, you observe that each cookie is a circular disk with a diameter of 8.50 { 0.02 cm and a thickness of 0.050 { 0.005 cm. (a) Find the average volume of a cookie and the uncertainty in the volume. (b) Find the ratio of the diameter to the thickness and the uncertainty in this ratio.

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The diameter of the cookie with uncertainty

The thickness of the cookie with uncertainty

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