Question

At a local school, 940 students each wrote 40 letters to students in another country. How many letters were written in all?

Answer 1

37,600

Explanation:

You have to multiply 940 and 40 because your trying to figure out the total amount of letters that were written.

940 x 40 = 37,600

you can also check your work by dividing 37,600 by any of those numbers or multiplying just to make sure.

Answer 2

37000 letters were written in all. The reason for this is because to solve this you would do 940x40 which gets you to 37000.