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Suppose that a standard remote reading bourdon tube thermometer has a scale of 40 to 240oF. If the accuracy of the thermometer is plus or minus 1% of the span, what would the range of measured temperature be if the thermometer indicates 180oF?

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dm dm1989 · Nov 20, 2016

Am I missing something??? 180*.01=1.8 +181.8 or -178.2??

sb sboston · Feb 16, 2017

it is one percent of the SPAN. span is 240-40=200. 0.01*200=2

Ni Nikogr24 · Feb 21, 2020

it should be 181.8 and 178.2