Question 1004688: You measure the length of the kitchen floor as 8.5 feet. Find the percent error in this measurement
Answer by fractalier(6550)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If it isn't given, we assume that the built-in error is half the smallest unit measured. Thus, since you measured to the tenths of a foot, your error would be 0.05 foot (half a tenth)...and then the percentage error is
.05/8.5 = .00588 = 0.588%
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