a university football stadium has 81000 5500 seats the stadium is full at capacity on game day Layla believes only 79,000 seats are occupied find the percent error of Layla prediction round your answer to the nearest hundreds of a percent
To find the percent error, we need to compare Layla's prediction to the actual number of occupied seats.
Actual number of occupied seats = 81,000
Layla's prediction = 79,000
Difference = Actual number - Predicted number = 81,000 - 79,000 = 2,000
Percent error = (Difference / Actual number) x 100
Percent error = (2,000 / 81,000) x 100
Percent error ≈ 0.0247 x 100
Percent error ≈ 2.47%
Therefore, the percent error of Layla's prediction is approximately 2.47%.