Question

A breadmaker buys a bag of flour labeled as containing 5 lbs of flour. She weighs the flour in the bag when she gets home and find that its actual weight is 4.5 lbs. What is the percent error from the labeled weight to the actual weight of flour in the bag

Answer 1

Answer:

Question :-

• A breadmaker buys a bag of flour labeled as containing 5 lbs of flour. She weighs the flour in the bag when she gets home and find that its actual weight is 4.5 lbs. What is the percent error from the labeled weight to the actual weight of flour in the bag

Find Out :-

• What is the percent error from the labeled weight to the actual weight of flour in the bag.

Solution :-

Given bag of wheat flour are

4.97,5.05,5.05,5.03,5.00,5.06,5.08,4.98,5.04,5.07,5.00

The total number of wheat flour bags =11.

The number of wheat flour bags contain more than 5 Kg are 7.

So,

$\dfrac{number\: of\: bags\: more\: than\: 5\: kg}{total\: number\: of\: bags} =\: \dfrac{7}{11}$