Donna estimated the height of her office building to be 35ft. The actual height of her office building is 38ft.
Find the absolute error and the percent error of Donna's estimate. If necessary, round your answers to the nearest tenth.

Question

Donna estimated the height of her office building to be  35ft. The actual height of her office building is 38ft.
Find the absolute error and the percent error of Donna's estimate. If necessary, round your answers to the nearest tenth.

anonymous · Answer

absolute error ___ft.
percent error___%

anonymous · Answer

do you have any ideas on what to do on this problem?

anonymous · Answer

nope im really bad at math

anonymous · Answer

ok well the absolute error is going to be how much she guessed wrong on how many feet it is tall.

anonymous · Answer

so like 3ft?

anonymous · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

how do I get the other part?

anonymous · Answer

Solve for the actual value. This is also called the accepted, experimental or true value.

Note due to the absolute value in the actual equation (above) there are two value

anonymous · Answer

yup nope still confused

anonymous · Answer

percent error= 7.8947368421053% then round that up

anonymous · Answer

so the answer for percent error is 8%