Question

Jasper’s new copier can produce a copy every 0.57 seconds. Jasper calculates that it will take 6.57 seconds to produce 6 copies.

Answer 1

It takes 0.57 seconds per copy and he made 6 copies.

6 + 0.57 = 6.57

He added 6 and 0.57 instead of multiplying.

Answer 2

The easiest way to figure this out would be to do the problem by ourselves:

0.57 · 6 = 3.42, so it will take about 3.5 seconds.

We can say that Jasper got a way different answer, so it must be something wrong with the way he multiplied. When we look through the answers and we see that rather than multiplying, Jasper added, so our answer is:

He added 6 and 0.57  instead of multiplying.