A surveyor is estimating the distance across a river. The actual distance is 319.4m. The surveyor's estimate is 300m.

Find the absolute error and the percent error of the surveyor's estimate. If necessary, round your answers to the nearest tenth.

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A surveyor is estimating the distance across a river. The actual distance is 319.4m. The surveyor's estimate is 300m.

Find the absolute error and the percent error of the surveyor's estimate. If necessary, round your answers to the nearest tenth.

anonymous · Answer

@agent0smith i knew how to do the others.. i have no idea for these

anonymous · Answer

Or maybe I do... Is it finding the difference between the two (319.4-300=19.4) and dividing that by the original and rounding? 0.060

anonymous · Answer

the error being 19.4 on the miles and 0.06 for the percentage?

anonymous · Answer

my answer square thing looks like this:
absolute error: __m
percent error: __%

agent0smith · Answer

percentage should be a... percentage.... need to times by 100%

anonymous · Answer

But were my steps correct? so then it would be 6%

anonymous · Answer

I was close. To those who come across this, after finding the difference, it should be 19.4/319.4*100 and it's 6.07 which rounds to 6.1%