Question

John is calculating 6% tax on an item in a store. he means to multiply the price of the item by 0.06, but he accidentally divides by 0.06. his answer is

Answer 1

His answer will be extremely larger than the tax, if anything it will be the number hat John's number is the tax for.

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Answer 2

His answer will have a very large value.

Explanation:

Lets take an example:

Let the item price be = $50

John is calculating 6% tax on an item. This becomes:

`0.06*50=3` dollars

But he accidentally divides by 0.06. This becomes:
`(50)/(0.06)= 833.33` dollars

We can see that the answer is completely wrong and the value is very large.