Hooke's Law & Forces: Find Force Constant, Slope & % Error

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Hey there, I have a paper on “Hooke’s Law” due in soon and have ran into a few problem’s when writing it, first of dose anyone know...

 How to find force constant?
 How to find slope with units?
 How to find % error?

If you know any of the above, I would deeply appreciate the answer... anyways thanks in advance.
 
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Did you look up any of these?
The questions are quite general and with wide possibilities.

For example in some situations you can find the force constant by reading the label on the spring or the manufacturer manual. You may not be interested in this method but how am I supposed to know?
 
Thanks for the reply, though what I ment to ask was generally how would I find

 Force constant?
 The slope with units?
 The % error?
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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