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1. Find the thickness of a five rupee coin with the screw gauge, if the pitch scale reading is 1 mm and its head scale coincidence is 68.
 
Solution:
 
From the data given,
 
Pitch scale reading (PSR) = 1 cm

Head scale coincidence (HSC) = 68
 
Let us consider,
 
Least count (LC) =  mm
 
The formula to calculate the thickness of the coin,
 
Answer variants:
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LC
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HSC
PSR
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Thickness=iiiiiii
 
Substitute the values in the formula,
 
Thickness of the ball :  mm
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