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The least count of the main scale of a vernier calipers is 1mm1mm. Its vernier scale is divided into 1010 divisions and coincide with 99 divisions of the main scale. When jaws are touching each other, the 7th{7}^{th} division of the vernier scale coincides with a division of the main scale and the zero of vernier scale is lying right side of the zero of the main scale. When this vernier is used to measure the length of the cylinder the zero of the vernier scale between 3.1cm3.1cm and 3.2cm3.2cm and 4th{4}^{th} VSD coincides with the main scale division. The length of the cylinder is (VSD is vernier scale division)

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Answer: (C) 3.07cm3.07cm

Zero Error == 0+7×0.1=0.0700+7\times 0.1=0.070
Vernier reading
=(3.1+4×0.01)–0.07=3.07=(3.1+4\times 0.01)–0.07=3.07

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