Question

Your favorite baseball player is doing much better this year than he did last year. Last year he got 56 hits. This year he has 3 times as many hits. How many hits does he have this year?

Answer 1

168 hits

Explanation:

We will use the math operation multiplication to solve. If he has 56 hits this year, then this year we can calculate 3(56)=168.

3(56)=56+56+56=150+18=168