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Jim is weighing an egg on an old triple beam balance, and he cannot adjust the rusted weights appropriately to balance the scale. He makes his best guess at the correct measurement and records it. What type of error has been introduced into Jim’s experiment? ASAP!

a. Random error
c. Systematic error
b. Constant error
d. Unfixable error

User Rinke
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Maybe it's a. Random error.
User Jake McGraw
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