Question

Ruiz needs to buy a countertop for a kitchen. He calculated the area to be 16 square feet. The actual area is 15.4 square feet. What is Ruiz's percentage error?
A.0.6%
B.3.75%
C.3.9%
D.6%

Answer 1

Percentage error $=\frac{error}{actual measurement} \times 100$
Here error = 16 - 15.4 = 0.6
Therefore, percentage error $=\frac{0.6}{15.4} \times 100=0.039 \times 100$
=3.9%

Answer 2

Answer:

3.9

Step-by-step explanation:

16 - 15.4 = 0.6  ={0.6}{15.4} *100=0.039 * 100  =3.9%