Question

John predicts the basketball team will score 68 points. If the basketball team actually scores 49 points, what is John's percent error? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

Answer 1

%error=100(estimated-actual)/actual

%error=100(68-49)/49

%error≈38.8%

Since this is positive, John's error overestimated the teams score by about 38.8%