Question

Boxes of packets of sweets are delivered to a shop.

There are 17 boxes.
Each box holds 42 packets.
How many packets of sweets are there?

Answer 1

712 this is the answer you just multiply the two

Answer 2

714 packets of sweets

Explanation:

So if there are 17 boxes with 42 sweets in each of them, we can just multiply 17 and 42 and we get teh amout of sweets in them since multiplication is just repeated addition.