Question

Zach wants to have a flower bed in his backyard he measures the area of the flower bed to be 10 square feet the actual measurement of the flower bed is 10.6 square feet approximately what is Zach's percent error

Answer 1

1) Gathering the data

Area: 10 ft²

Actual: 10.6 ft²

2) To find the percent error, let's divide the estimated error by the actual area, in this case:

$P=\frac{10}{10.6}\approx0.94$

3.) So the percent error was 0.94 we then multiply by 100: We have the error.

Zach's percent error was 94%