A student measures a boiling water bath with two different thermometers. The digital thermometer records the temperature as 100. 2°C and has an uncertainty of 0. 1°C. The analog thermometer records the temperature as 99. 0°C and has an uncertainty of 0. 5°C. What is the percent uncertainty of each thermometer? And what is the percent error given that water boils at 100. 0°C?

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