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If you wanted to repeat your experiment, you could do it once, then do it again, and so on. You could also _____.

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You can do three experiments and take the average result.

Step-by-step explanation:

Repeating an experiment establishes two things: reproduciblity and repeatability. These are two different but connected terms.

Reproducibility: This refers to the degree of agreement in the results conducted by different individuals at different locations using different instruments. The experiments are subject to many conditions such as temperature, humidity, human error, instrument error etc.

Repeatability on the other hand, is a measure of how repeatable an experiment is by using same instruments. In other words, the experiment must be replicated elsewhere and still generate the same results or close to that.

To establish the either of the two, three experiments will be sufficient. This means that for the results, there will be a lower value, middle value, and upper value.

The average result is a combination of the results and divided by the number of experiments, in this case, 3.

One advantage of doing 3 experiments is that you get a quick representative of how the results are.

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