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Talja [164]
2 years ago
5

Ross needs to buy a countertop for a laundry room. He calculated the area to be 12 square feet. The actual area is 11.8 square f

eet. What is Ross's percentage error? a.1.02% b.1.69% c.20% d.98%
Mathematics
2 answers:
astra-53 [7]2 years ago
4 0

Answer:

B. 1.69%

Step-by-step explanation:

If Ross calculated the countertop for a laundry room to be 12 square feet but turns out to be actually 11.8 square feet, we need to find out how much percentage error Ross has made!

In order to solve this question,

1) We need to create proportions:

Ross' calculations              x

______________ =   _________

   actual area                   100

x represents the percentage error.

100 is the total percentage.

2) Now we plug in the numbers:

We plug in 12 for Ross' calculations. We plug in 11.8 for the actual area. So, it will look like this:

   12                x

______ = _______

   11.8           100

3) Time for cross multiplication:

12 times 100 is 1,200

11.8 times x is 11.8x

So,

1,200 = 11.8x

4) Now we divide:

1,200 divided by 11.8 equals to 101.69 %

5) We are not done! We still have to subtract:

101.69

-100.00

_______

    1.69

Finished!!

<u>Our answer is 1.69%, which is B.</u>

<u>Hope this was helpful !!!</u>

sergejj [24]2 years ago
3 0

Answer:

b. 1.69

Step-by-step explanation:

So to solve this problem we need to simply find the percentage increase from 11.8 to 12 =>

to solve this we would do 12 - 11.8 = 0.2 --> 0.2 is our "difference in the increase" -->

now we divide this by our amt. which is 11.8 --> 0.2/11.8 = approx. 0.0169

--> finally multiply that by 100 which is simply moving the decimal places 2 places right giving us the final answer of 1.69

<u><em>Hope this helps!</em></u>

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