Question

A secretary is making an inventory of office supplies. She finds 12 full boxes of blue pens which have 45 pens in each box. How many pens will she

indicate on the inventory?

Answer 1

540 pens

Explanation:

Multiply 12 by 45

Answer 2

A secretary is making an inventory of office supplies. Secretary will indicate 540 pens in inventory.

Solution:

From question, given that

Number of boxes full of blue pen in inventory = 12

Number of pen in 1 box = 45.

Secretary needs to find number of pens in inventory.

Number of pen in 1 box = 45

So number of pens in 12 box = number of pen in 1 box
`*` 12

45 x 12 = 540

Hence secretary will indicate 540 pens in inventory.