John had 5 bags of apples. There are 4 apples in each bag. How many apples are there?

2 Answers
Oct 22, 2016

5×4=20 apples

Explanation:

With word problems, the difficult part is deciding which operation to do.

In 1 bag of apples there are 4 apples.

But John had 5 bags of apples. SO he had 5 times as many bags.

In 5 bags of apples there will be 5×4=20 apples.

You can also think about this as

1 bag+1 bag+1 bag+1 bag+1 bag which means

4 apples+4 apples+4 apples+4 apples+4 apples

=20 apples.

But multiplying is the short cut for repeated addition.

5×4=20 apples

Oct 22, 2016

20

Explanation:

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5 x 4 = 20