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Miles incorrectly gave the product of 7 * 2.6 as 14 * 42 to use a place value chart or an area model to help miles understand his mistake what is the answer

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It looks like he used the distributive property. He multiplied 7*2. Then. 7*6. Then he multiplied them together. That is not how you multiply numbers

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