Question

A student estimated the temperature of the room to be 24°C. After carefully measuring, he found the actual temperature to be 23.5°C. What is the percent of error?

Answer 1

Taking 24 then using the process of elimination the total percentage that he was off by was 1.05% off

Answer 2

2.13% (rounded to nearest thousandth)

Explanation:

You subtract 24 from 23.5 to get 0.5

Then you divide 0.5 by 23.5 to get 0.02127

Then you multiply that by 100 to get your percent error