Question

Hunter assumed he would only get 54

problems correct on his test, but he
actually got 78 correct. What was his
percent error?
Hint: Percent error = | Prediction - Actual
x 100
| Actual
Round to the nearest percent.
[ ? ]%

Answer 1

Percent error is 44.4%

Explanation:

Here, we want to get the percent error

From the question, prediction is 54 while actual value is 78

from the formula given;

Percent error = |prediction-actual|/actual * 100%

so we have

|54-78|/54 * 100%

= 24/54 * 100% = 44.4%