Question

Gabe has 5 birdcages. He keeps 5 birds in each cage.How many birds does Gabe have? Use a bar diagram to represent the problem.3rd grade student

Answer 1

First let's represent the problem using a bar diagram:

As we can see, each bar represent a different cage and it's height represents the number of birds for each one of them.

Now, once Gabe has 5 cages and each of them has 5 birds, he has 5*5 = 25 birds.