Question

A zookeeper predicted the weight of a new baby elephant to be 232 pounds when it was born. The elephant actually weighed 264 pounds at birth. What was the percent error of the zookeeper's prediction?

Answer 1

percent error = | estimated - true | / |true| * 100

Answer 2

I put them in absolute values since percent error is usually given as a positive number

Answer 3

Okey

Answer 4

I got -32