While doing a lab, a student found the density of a piece of pure aluminum to be 2.85 g/cm3. The accepted value for the density

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oksano4ka [1.4K]

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While doing a lab, a student found the density of a piece of pure aluminum to be 2.85 g/cm3. The accepted value for the density

of aluminum is 2.70 g/cm3. What was the student's percent error?

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bezimeni [28] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-06T03:30:26+03:00

bezimeni [28]3 years ago

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The equation for percent error is

% Error = $100*|Experimental-Theoretical|/Theoretical$

Our experimental is 2.85g/cm^3 and the accepted is 2.7g/cm^3

Thus our % Error = 5.555%