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Chapter 6: Q15E (page 1435)

A useful and easy-to-rememberapproximate value for the number of seconds in a year is107. Determine the percent error in this approximate value. (There are 365.24 days in one year.)

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Step1(Definition)-

It is difference between actual value and estimated value in the comparative manner with actual value as percentage.

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Step2(Mathematical expression for percentage error)

For calculating percentage error simply divide of experimental value

(π×107)by the actual value (3.1556736107),but it is close.

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Step3(Conclusion)

actual−experimentalactual×100

So,if we plug the number into equation where we have to subtract the experimental from the actual ,you should get the right answer.

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