Question

A zookeeper predicted the weight of a new baby elephant to be 263 pounds when it was born. The elephant actually weighed 295 pounds at birth. What was the percent error of the zookeeper's prediction?
32%
12.17%
10.85%
89.15%

Answer 1

@paki

Answer 2

first, what is the difference between the zookeeper's guess and the actual weight?

Answer 3

what

Answer 4

@dan815 can you please help

Answer 5

295 - 263

Answer 6

ok

Answer 7

then what else

Answer 8

then....do you know how to convert to percentages

Answer 9

wouldn't it be the difference out of 100