SOLUTION: Carrie bought new carpet for her living room. She calculated the area of the living room to be 174.2 square feet. the actual area was 149.6 square feet. What is the relative error
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Question 399495: Carrie bought new carpet for her living room. She calculated the area of the living room to be 174.2 square feet. the actual area was 149.6 square feet. What is the relative error of the area to the nearest ten-thousandth?
Answer by CubeyThePenguin(3113) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
relative error = (|149.6 - 174.2|)/(174.2) * 100% = 14.12% or 0.1412
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