A Botany Student Counted 11 Blades of Grass in One

question 95

Multiple Choice

A botany student counted 11 blades of grass in one square centimeter of lawn and measured the lawn as a Rectangle 61 m by 31 m. She reported that there were 208,010,000 blades of grass in the lawn. The precision of Her conclusion

• A)is less than her measurements warrant.
• B)is excessive given her measurements.
• C)correctly represents her measurements.
• D)could be greater if she used a more precise calculator.

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