Question

A student estimated the volume of a liquid in a beaker as 200.0 mL. When she poured the liquid into a graduated cylinder she MEASURED the volume to be 198.2 mL. What is the percent error?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is 0.91 %

Explanation:

The percentage error of a certain measurement can be found by using the formula

$P(\%) = \frac{error}{actual \: \: number} \times 100\%$

From the question

actual volume = 198.2 mL

error = 200 - 198.2 = 1.8

So we have

$P(\%) = \frac{1.8}{198.2} \times 100 \\ = 0.90817356205...$

We have the final answer as

0.91 %

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