he pulp and paper factory is one of the longest industrial sectors in the world. Thus, international paper company wants to increase their output. Based on its product, the thickness of 500 sheet of papers is 2.027558055 inch. Without decreasing its quality according to scientific experiments they had done, they decided to use rounding off formula from 9 decimal places to 6 decimal places based on thickness of the paper. Discuss the above study in view of absolute and relative errors. If you are quality control manager of the factory, what is your BEST action towards production line with above decision. Justify your answer

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The pulp and paper factory is one of the longest industrial sectors in the world. Thus, international paper company wants to increase their output. Based on its product, the thickness of 500 sheet of papers is 2.027558055 inch. Without decreasing its quality according to scientific experiments they had done, they decided to use rounding off formula from 9 decimal places to 6 decimal places based on thickness of the paper. Discuss the above study in view of absolute and relative errors. If you are quality control manager of the factory, what is your BEST action towards production line with above decision. Justify your answer.

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