SOLUTION: A line was measured with a steel tape when the temperature was 30�C. The measured length of the line was found to be 1,256.271 feet. The tape was afterwards tasted when the tempera

Question 1058074: A line was measured with a steel tape when the temperature was 30�C. The measured length of the line was found to be 1,256.271 feet. The tape was afterwards tasted when the temperature was 10�C and it was found to be 100.042 feet long. What was the true length of the line if the coefficient of expansion of the tape was 0.000011 per �C?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the length of the tape at 30C.

So the percentage error at temperature is,

So the line length at 10C would be,

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