Percent Error Equations Formulas Calculator

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Solving for the actual, true or accepted value in the percent error equation. Note, this has two solution due to the absolute value in the percent error equation. However if percent error is equal to 100 percent or -100 percent, then there is only one calculated solution and one solution of infinity. The infinity comes from the division by zero.

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percent error calculator

Rich internet application version of the percent error calculator.

	Solve for percent error
	Solve for the actual value. This is also called the accepted, experimental or true value. Note due to the absolute value in the actual equation (above) there are two value.
	Solve for the measured or observed value. Note due to the absolute value in the actual equation (above) there are two solutions.

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Solve for percent difference.

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