Question

in chemistry class charlie records the volume of a liquid as 13.3 milliliters. the actual volume is 13.6 milliliters. what is his percent error? round to the nearest percent

Answer 1

Given

class charlie records the volume of a liquid as 13.3 milliliters.

the actual volume is 13.6 milliliters

Find the percent error.

To proof

Formula

$Percentage\ error = \frac{error\times 100}{accepted\ value}$

error =  accepted value - measured value

As given in the question

actual volume = 13.6 milliliters

records the volume of a liquid = 13.3 milliliters

error = actual volume -  records volume

        = 13 .6 - 13.3

        = 0.3 milliliters

put all the value in the above formula

we get

$percent\ error = \frac{0.3\times100}{13.6}$

on solving the above equation

$percentage\ error = \frac{30}{13.6}$

therefore

percentage error = 2.21 %

Hence proved