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a) Suppose an experiment measures the energy of a particle to be 0.151 MeV ± 0.017...

a) Suppose an experiment measures the energy of a particle to be 0.151 MeV ± 0.017 MeV. What is the probability that the energy is actually 0.180 MeV or greater?

b) If I make 100 measurements of the energy and each measurement is within the stated ±0.017 MeV, what is likely wrong with the stated value of energy?

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