Assuming that you weighted a piece of silver five times and each time you got 52 grams. However, the actual weight from the Bureau of Standards said it should weigh 50 g. (a) What is the % relative errors? (b) What type of error does this exemplify? (c) Does this affect (a) reliability (b) Accuracy (c) both a & b

Assuming that you weighted a piece of silver five times and each time you got 52 grams. However, the actual weight from the Bureau of Standards said it should weigh 50 g. (a) What is the % relative errors? (b) What type of error does this exemplify? (c) Does this affect (a) reliability (b) Accuracy (c) both a & b

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