Teachers at price middle school are planning a birthday party for the principal planners estimated that 42 slices of cake would be needed. In fact only 30 slices of cake were eating what was the error in estimate of how mucj cake was eaten ?
Mathematics · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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Given :
Estimated value (EV) = 42
Real value (RV) = 30
The estimation error is defined as the absolute value of the difference between estimated value and real value.
E = | EV - RV |
= | 42 - 30 |
= | 12 |
E = 12
Thus, the error in estimate is 12 .