Two independent measurements are made of the lifetime of a charmed strange meson. Each measurement has a standard deviation of 7times 10^{−15} seconds. The lifetime of the meson is estimated by averaging the two measurements. What is the standard deviation of this estimate ?

Bergen

Bergen

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2021-02-12

Two independent measurements are made of the lifetime of a charmed strange meson. Each measurement has a standard deviation of 7×1015 seconds. The lifetime of the meson is estimated by averaging the two measurements.
What is the standard deviation of this estimate ?

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Jaylen Fountain

Jaylen Fountain

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Step 1
It is given that the population standard deviation is 7×1015.
The lifetime of the meson is estimated by averaging the two measurements.
The standard deviation of the two measurements is obtained by dividing the population standard deviation by square 2.
Step 2
Thus, the standard deviation of the estimate is, SD=7×10152=4.9497×1015.

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