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Is it more important to be accurate or precise when doing an experiment? Discuss the purpose of an experiment and how accuracy and precision play important parts in it.

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Its important to be accurate and precise because that's how you get the correct answer. After all, trying to answer a question is the whole purpose of an experiment so you might as well want to get the right answer.
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