SOLUTION: you measure a piece of rope and find its length to be 12m. Find the percent error of this measurement. Round to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 1009497: you measure a piece of rope and find its length to be 12m. Find the percent error of this measurement. Round to the nearest hundredth.
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Normally the error involved in a measurement is half the smallest measured unit. Here that would be 0.5m.
The percentage error is .5/12 = 4.17%
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