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A zookeeper predicted the weight of a new baby elephant to be 274 pounds when it was born. The elephant actually weighed 306 pounds at birth. What was the percent error of the zookeeper's prediction?

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User Binh
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Answer:

About 11%

Explanation:

I first subtracted 250 from 282, to get 32. I then did 32/282 to get .11.... You round that out to about 11%

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