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Look at these sets of pencils. Each set has four pencils.
4 + 4 + 4 = 12
Three sets of 4 make 12.
Three 4s are 12.
When we add the same number again and again, it is called repeated
addition. Instead of adding the same number again and again, we can
multiply to find out the total number of pencils.
Repeated addition of the same number is called multiplication. The sign
of multiplication is ‘×’.
For the above example, we write
3 × 4 = 12.
We read it as three times 4 is 12 or 3 multiplied by 4 is 12.
The result 12 is called the product.
The answer we get on
multiplication is called
the product.
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