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Using a meter stick, a student measure s a length and reports it to be 0.8755 m0.8755\ \mathrm{m}. What is the smallest division on the meter stick scale?

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When measuring something we always add half of the smallest value we can measure. This compensate for our unintentional human mistake.

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