Question

Mr. Anderson has 4 plates of cookies. There are 5 cookies on each plate. How many cookies are there in all ?

Answer 1

by having 4 plates with 5 cookies on each is you multiply 5 by 4 you will get the answer of 20 

Answer 2

There are 20 cookies in all.

Explanation:

Mr. Anderson has 4 plates of cookies. There are 5 cookies on each plate

There are 4 plates of cookies . In each plate there are 5 cookies

to get total cookies we add all the cookies in each plate

5+5+5+5= 20 cookies

There are 20 cookies in all.