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📅 NSB Single Elimination 2008🎓 MS🔄 Round 3#️⃣ Question 25🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

After taking 20 readings of the outside winter air temperature during an experiment, Kathy realizes that the first reading is more than 20% higher than all the following readings. She quickly remembers that she forgot to allow the thermometer, which was stored in a warm room, to adjust to the outside temperature. Which of the following is the most appropriate solution to her problem of what seems to be an experimental error:

W) discuss the error with the other scientists and then discard the reading
X) repeat the experiment, and if no other readings are unusually high she can discard the initial high reading as long as she explains why
Y) repeat the experiment and average in the high reading
Z) buy a new thermometer
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