What is the percent error if the accepted value is 80g and the measured is 82g?
1 Answer
Feb 8, 2016
The percent error is basically the fractional deviation from the accepted value.
The percent error is the absolute difference between the measured/approximate and accepted/exact values, relative to the exact value:
#\mathbf(% "Error" = |"Approximate" - "Exact"|/("Exact")xx100%)#
#= |82 - 80|/(80)xx100%#
#= color(blue)(2.5%)#
So the percent error is
