Question: Part ( a ) : Adding resistors in series Suppose we have three resistors of type and two resistors of type , all attached in

Part (a): Adding resistors in series
Suppose we have three resistors of type and two resistors of type , all attached in series. The formula for the total resistance is the sum of all resistances:
=3+2
Assume that resistors of type A are all identical and with resistance
=85\pm 5ohms.
Likewise resistors of type are all identical with resistance
=120\pm 6ohms.
Your tasks are as follows:
Determine (and print) the central value and error on following the "usual method" i.e., from Eq.(1a) and (1b).
Next, you will determine the central value and error on total using Monte Carlo sampling. Specifically, your tasks are as follows:
Generate =105 samples for both and from normal distributions. For sampling , you set and to be the central value and error on quoted above (and similarly for ).
Obtain samples for from your samples for and , according to the formula above. That is, for each sample ,, you obtain =3+2 as a sample for .
Calculate and print the mean and standard deviation for from your samples.
Your results from both methods should agree

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