Question

A teacher asks 15 students to estimate an answer to a question. The answers are 1,5,5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12. The correct estimate is 7. The teacher wants to calculate how far off the estimates were by finding the absolute value of the difference between each estimate and the answer. Which estimate was off by the most?​

Answer 1

1 was off the most

Explanation:

if you subtract the two extremes from 7, you'll find that:

7 - 12 = -5, which means that 12 was only 5 away from the correct answer, while

7- 1 = 6, which means that 1 was 6 off from the correct answer, which means that that answer was off by the most