ECZ 2017 · O-Level Paper 1 — Approximations

Misozi and Filamba estimated the length of a line as 9 cm and 10 cm respectively. If the true length is 9.6 cm, find Misozi's absolute error.

  • A. 0.4 cm
  • B. 0.6 cm
  • C. 1.6 cm
  • D. 0.06 cm

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Absolute error is the size of the gap between estimate and true value: |9 − 9.6| = …

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