A steel tape measure is accurate at 20 degree Celsius. It is used at 10 degree Celsius to measure off a kilometre distance. What reading will tape shows?

What are two different ways you could find the value of a? explain these methods.

Asynthetic fiber used in manufacturing carpet has tensile strength that is normally distributed with mean 75.5 psi and standard deviation 3.5 psi. how is the standard deviation of the sample mean changed when the sample size is increased from n equals 8 to n equals 47

The stopwatch used by a student to measure velocity of a pulse in a slinky was of least count 0.1 second. he stops the stopwatch when a pulse has made 3 journeys from one end to the other of the slinky. he finds the seconds hand to be at 52nd division. calculate the correct time noted by him.