SOLUTION: A nursing student took a patient's pulse and determined his heart rate to be 74 beats per minute. At the same time, a monitor measured the patient's heart rate to be exactly 1.3 be
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Question 182899: A nursing student took a patient's pulse and determined his heart rate to be 74 beats per minute. At the same time, a monitor measured the patient's heart rate to be exactly 1.3 beats per second. Calculate the student's percent of error to the nearest tenth of a percent. Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A nursing student took a patient's pulse and determined his heart rate to be 74 beats per minute. At the same time, a monitor measured the patient's heart rate to be exactly 1.3 beats per second. Calculate the student's percent of error to the nearest tenth of a percent.
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74 beats per minute = 74/60 = 1.233 beats per seconds
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Quatitative difference: 1.3-1.233 = 0.067
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The nursing student measure was 0.067 below the monitor measure of 1.3
0.067/1.3 = 0.051 or 5.1%
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