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)Responses
To find the percent error, we need to compare Layla's prediction of 79,000 occupied seats with the actual number of 81,500 occupied seats.
The actual number of occupied seats is 81,500.
The difference between Layla's prediction and the actual number of occupied seats is 81,500 - 79,000 = 2,500.
To find the percent error, we divide the difference by the actual number of occupied seats and multiply by 100:
percent error = (difference / actual) * 100 = (2,500 / 81,500) * 100 = 0.03067 * 100 = 3.07%
Therefore, the percent error of Layla's prediction is 3.07%.