Does higher or lower precentage error mean you are close to the actual number?

Question

For example if the percentage error of one problem was 15% and the other was 30% which one is closer to the actual answer? So is the higher number closer or the lower number?

Answer 1

It depends, it only determines the errors possible within the extent, otherwise if those are the actual error in percentage therefore you can directly calculate the correction to get the actual value.

Answer 2

say real answer is 100

and wrong answer is 2

the percentual error is then (100-2)/100 = 0.98 = 98 %

if the answer is 90 then percentual error = (100-90)/100 = 0.10 = 10 %

the higher the more wrong the answer is.