Question

Kristen wants to store 14 movies on the hard drive of her laptop. If each movie takes up 500 meg, how much storage will all 14 movies require?

Answer 1

Hey there!

This is a simple multiplication problem.

If she wants to download 14 movies that take up 500 meg each, we have to multiply 14 and 500 together to find the answer.

14 x 500

An easy way to do this is to multiply 14 x 5, then multiply that by 100.

This works because 5 x 100 = 500.

14 x 5 = 70

70 x 100 = 7,000

So, the 14 movies will need 7,000 meg of space.

Hope this helps!