Your friend states in a report that the average time required to circle a 1.0-mi track was 49.325 s. This was measured by timing 10 laps using a stopwatch with a precision of 0.01 s. Do you believe his results are reliable? Explain.

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Rishi Fitzgerald

Physics

6 October, 12:49

Your friend states in a report that the average time required to circle a 1.0-mi track was 49.325 s. This was measured by timing 10 laps using a stopwatch with a precision of 0.01 s. Do you believe his results are reliable? Explain.

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Trevor Dominguez · Answer 1

I'm very skeptical about the accuracy and reliability of his results.

I need to know more about the situation.

First of all, I need to know HOW the track was circled.

Was it by foot? By car? By horse? By a dog?

- - The current men's world record in the Mile Run

is 3 minutes 43 seconds.

- - My friend reported research showing that it really

only requires about 22% of that much time.

- - His data and his methods need some peer review.