Question

Raul calculated that he would spend $125 on school supplies this year. He actually spent $87.50 on school supplies. What is Raul’s percent of error?

Answer 1

percentage error is calculated like this
original value-true value divided by the original value times 100

Answer 2

What ?

Answer 3

this is what you have to do \[\frac{125-87.5}{125}\times 100 \]

Answer 4

actually a mistake it is
\[\frac{125-87.5}{87.5}\times 100\]

Answer 5

42% is the error