3 - Environmental Sampling Analysis
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Practice Questions
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What do QA and QC stand for?
💡 Hint: Think about processes that ensure quality in measurements.
Define precision in measurements.
💡 Hint: Consider multiple trials and their consistency.
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What does QA/QC stand for?
💡 Hint: Think about the processes that ensure measurements are trustworthy.
True or False: Precision measures how close a measurement is to the true value.
💡 Hint: Try to differentiate between precision and accuracy.
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Challenge Problems
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You are tasked with measuring heavy metal pollutants in a river. Describe the QA/QC processes you would implement to ensure the data is reliable.
💡 Hint: Consider all steps from sample collection to data analysis.
An analysis shows that the results for a pollutant are consistently falling within 15% of the expected values. Discuss the implications of this finding.
💡 Hint: Think about acceptable error margins in environmental samples.
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