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There are 10 girls and 8 boys at a party. A cartoonist want to sketch a picture of each boy with each girl. How many sketches are required?​

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80 sketches will be required. It’s just multiplication. Let x=boys and y=girls. If x=8 and y=10, then one boy has to be with one girl. In total 1 boy will be with 10 girls, so that’s 10 sketches. You do the same for boy #2 and so on. It adds up to 80.
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