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The principal wanted to buy 8 pencils for every student at her school. If there are 859 students, how many pencils do the principal need to buy?
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The principal wanted to buy 8 pencils for every student at her school.

If there are 859 students, how many pencils do the principal need to buy?

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multiply the number of total students by the number of pencils each student is going to get

859 students x 8 pencils per student = 6,872 total pencils that the principal has to buy so that each student can have 8 pencils
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859 x 8 = 6,872. 6,872 pencils are needed.
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