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    Percent Error Worksheet

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    This document provides examples of calculating percent error in various laboratory measurements and experiments. It gives the formulas for determining percent error by comparing a measured or observed value to a known or accepted true value. It then works through 9 examples problems of students determining properties like boiling points, densities, masses, and volumes and calculating their percent errors compared to literature or teacher values.

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    Percent Error Worksheet

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    This document provides examples of calculating percent error in various laboratory measurements and experiments. It gives the formulas for determining percent error by comparing a measured or observed value to a known or accepted true value. It then works through 9 examples problems of students determining properties like boiling points, densities, masses, and volumes and calculating their percent errors compared to literature or teacher values.

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    This document provides examples of calculating percent error in various laboratory measurements and experiments. It gives the formulas for determining percent error by comparing a measured or observed value to a known or accepted true value. It then works through 9 examples problems of students determining properties like boiling points, densities, masses, and volumes and calculating their percent errors compared to literature or teacher values.

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    This document provides examples of calculating percent error in various laboratory measurements and experiments. It gives the formulas for determining percent error by comparing a measured or observed value to a known or accepted true value. It then works through 9 examples problems of students determining properties like boiling points, densities, masses, and volumes and calculating their percent errors compared to literature or teacher values.

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    Name __________________________Date _________________Period______

    PERCENT ERROR WORKSHEET

    Percent Error = Your Answer – True Value x100


    True Value

    1. Joshua uses his thermometer and finds the boiling point of ethyl alcohol to be 75 o C. He
    looks in a reference book and finds that the actual boiling point of ethyl alcohol is 80oC.
    What is his percent error?

    75-80 = 5 = .0625 X 100 = 6.25%


    80 80

    2. The density of water at 4oC is known to be 1.00 g/mL. Kayla experimentally found the
    density of water to be 1.075 g/mL. What is her percent error?

    1.075 - 1 = 0.075 = 0.075 X 100 = 7.5%


    1 1

    3. The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics lists the density of a certain liquid to be 0.7988
    g/mL. Taylor experimentally finds this liquid to have a density of 0.7925 g/mL. The teacher
    allows up to +/- 0.500% error to make an “A” on the lab. Did Fred make an “A”? Prove
    your answer.

    0.7925 - 0.7988 = 0.0063 = 0.0079 X 100 = 0.79%


    0.7988 0.7988

    4. An object has a mass of 35.0 grams. On Anthony’s balance, it weighs 34.85 grams. What is
    the percent error of his balance?

    34.85 – 35.0 = .15 = 0.0043 X 100 = 0.43%


    35.0 35.0
    5. After lab, all of Darrel’s friends looked at his data and laughed and laughed. They told him
    that he was 30.8% too low in the boiling point he had just recorded. He had recorded a
    boiling point of 50o C on his data sheet. What is the correct boiling point of the liquid he was
    working with in lab?

    6. Ariel weighed an object on her balance and recorded a mass of 24.3 grams. Her teacher told
    her that there was obviously something wrong with her balance because it was giving her a
    reading which was 30.0% too high. What was the actual mass of the object?

    7. Chase got a lab report back with “-5.0% error” written in red on it. He had determined the
    boiling point of an unknown liquid to be 45o C. What is the correct boiling point of his
    unknown liquid?

    8. Shelby measured the volume of a cylinder and determined it to be 54.5 cm3. The teacher told
    her that she was 4.25% too high in her determination of the volume. What is the actual
    volume of the cylinder?

    9. Walter gets a paper back in lab with “-2.75% error” written on it. He had found the mass of
    an object to be 100.7 grams. What should he have found as the mass of the object?

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