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Kevin measured the distance from his school to a stadium as 3 km. The actual distance from his school to the stadium is 2.84 km. What is the approximate percent error in Kevin ’s measurement? Round to the nearest tenth of a percent, if necessary.

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Maria11 - 21.01.2016 19:49Kevin measured the distance from his school to a stadium as 3 km. The actual distance from his school to the stadium is 2.84 km. What is the approximate percent error in Kevin ’s measurement? Round to the nearest tenth of a percent, if necessary.

Angelina Milton - 21.01.2016 20:13Distance as measured by Kevin from his school to stadium = 3 km The actual distance from school to the stadium = 2.84 km Then Amount of error made by Kevin = (3 - 2.84) km = 0.16 km Then Percentage of error made by Kevin = (0.16/2.84) * 100 = 5.63 percent So 5.63% error was made by Kevin.

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