Homework Help: chemistry

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:57pm.

Ariel found the density of an unknown solid to be 24.3 g/cm3. Her teacher told her that something must have gone wrong with her measurements because her percent error was 30.0% too high. What was the actual or accepted density of her unknown solid?

chemistry - DrBob222, Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 2:33pm
Just plug the numbers into the formula for percent error.
(24.3-x/x) = 0.30
Solve for x

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