After a race, a runners GPS watch shows the length of the race course to be 5058

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After a race, a runner’s GPS watch shows the length of the race course to be 5058 m. If the actual length of the course is 4998 m, find the percent error in the watch’s reading. See Exercise 23.


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The percent error in a measurement is the ratio of the error in the measurement to the actual correct value, expressed as a percent. When writing a computer program, the memory remaining is determined as 2450 MB and then it is correctly found to be 2540 MB. What is the percent error in the first reading?

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Basic Technical Mathematics

ISBN: 9780137529896

12th Edition

Authors: Allyn J. Washington, Richard Evans

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