Question

A pedometer is a device that estimates the distance that a person walks by recording the number of steps taken. Chloe walked exactly 0.5 mile around an official track. Her pedometer showed a distance of 0.58 miles. Calculate the percent error for Chloe’s pedometer.

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Answer 1

Explanation:

pedometer is out by 0.08 miles

As a percentage of the correct distance, this is 0.08/0.5 = 0.16 or 16%