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A person made an estimate for a three–minute interval. the estimate was 241.5 seconds. what was the error of this estimate?
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A person made an estimate for a three–minute interval. the estimate was 241.5 seconds. what was the error of this estimate?

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We know a minute is 60 seconds.  So 3 minutes would be 60X3=180.  4 minutes would be 60X4=240.  The error was the person rounded to 4 minutes instead of 3 minutes.
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