Percent Error Practice

What is the absolute value of -1.3

• 1.3
• -1.3
• 0

Find the Absolute Value of 220

• -220
• 110
• -110
• 220

I -808 I

• 808
• -808

Find the Absolute Value of -18

• 18
• -18
• 36
• -36

Find the absolute value

• -43
• 43
• 0
• -1

Zed went to the store and bought a bag of chips.  He estimated there would be 350 chips in the package, but realized there were only 210 chips in that package.  What was his percent error?

• 35%
• 67%
• 85%
• 92%

The attendance for the basketball game was estimated to be 12,500 people but 15,000 people attended. What was the percent error?

• 16.67%

• 20%

• 2500%

• 80%

Bob estimates that there will be 230 people who attend the concert.  There was an actual total of 300 people who attended.  Find the percent error.  

• 23%
• 33%
• 27%
• 37%

You guessed that the Chicago Cubs would win 95 games during the regular season. They actually won 103. What was your percent error? Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.

• 7.8%
• 7.7%
• 0.77%
• 0.78%

Heather performs an experiment to measure the acceleration of an object due to Earth’s gravitational force and discovers the acceleration of an object is 10.91 meters per second. The actual acceleration of the object is 9.80 meters per second. Approximately what is Heather’s percent error?

• 0.11%

• 1.11%

• 11.3%

• 10.17%

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2