ECZ 2024 · O-Level Paper 1 — Approximations

A container of cooking oil has a mass of 15.4 kg. Write down the relative error of the mass of the container of cooking oil as a fraction in its simplest form.

  • A. 1154
  • B. 5154
  • C. 120
  • D. 1308

Verified working — step 1

Relative error compares the ABSOLUTE error with the measured value itself - a fraction saying how large the uncertainty is for the size of the measurement.

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