#How do you find the percentage uncertainty of this function?

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icy ruin
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$\tan^{-1}{\left(\frac{1.5262\pm0.05-12\sin{\left(30\pm0.5\right)}}{-12\cos{\left(30\pm0.5\right)}}\right)}$

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topaz kiteBOT
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gpm_marcus

visual hinge
zealous matrix
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It does have some uncertainty though

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See the ± symbols? Start there.

zealous matrix
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You have these possible combinations of the operation usage; {+++ OR, ++- OR, +-- OR, --- OR, --+ OR, -++ OR, +-+ OR, -+-}
Try to find each of the numbers that occur with each one, then look at the variance between each value(by plotting them), then ask yourself: ± what fraction multiplied by 100 will cover all values when added to my mean value(I think, I'm not quite sure)

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OR I could be over complicating it and you take the highest magnitude value after a ± and multiply by 100. Giving you about 50% error(and that seems a tad bit excessive)

visual hinge
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And divide by two, since the error could be in either direction?

zealous matrix
icy ruin
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is it greatest when the top two are + while the bottom is -?