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American car makers produced 5,650,00 cars each year. In a report Ben wrote that Americans made6,550,000 cars. What mistake did Ben make? How can he fix it?

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Ben transposed the first two digits of the number of cars produced. He can fix it by writing the number correctly.

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Such transposition errors are fairly common, which is why many numbering schemes have built-in check digits that detect such transposition.

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