A university football stadium has 81,500 seats. The stadium is at full capacity on game day. Layla believes only 79,000 seats are occupied. Find the percent error of Layla's prediction. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a percent. (1 point)

Answer 1

Percent error is calculated by taking the absolute value of the difference between the predicted value and the actual value, dividing it by the actual value, and then multiplying by 100.

The actual number of occupied seats is 81,500 and Layla predicted 79,000.

The absolute value of the difference between 81,500 and 79,000 is |81,500 - 79,000| = |2,500| = 2,500.

So, the percent error is (2,500 / 81,500) * 100 ≈ 3.07.

Rounding to the nearest hundredth of a percent, the percent error is 3.07%.