An absorption measurement with a 1 cm path length yields a reading of 0.004 absorbance units with a noise of 0.001 absorbance units and a mean noise reading of 0 for 10 scans averaged together.  Assuming the noise for a single scan does not change if the path length is increased to 6 cm and the number of scans is increase to 100, what is the signal to noise of the new measurement.

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An absorption measurement with a 1 cm path length yields a reading of 0.004 absorbance units with a noise of 0.001 absorbance units and a mean noise reading of 0 for 10 scans averaged together.  Assuming the noise for a single scan does not change if the path length is increased to 6 cm and the number of scans is increase to 100, what is the signal to noise of the new measurement. 

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