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A time interval of 3 minutes and 20 seconds is wrongly measured at 3 minutes and 25 seconds. What is the percentage error?

Given: Actual Value = 3 minutes and 20 seconds = 200 seconds and Observed Value = 3 minutes and 25 seconds = 205 seconds


Error = Observed Value – Actual Value


Error= 5 seconds




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