3. If 1 packet of biscuits contains 23 biscuits, how many biscuits would 17 packets contain?
4. 1 ticket to the 5 Directions concert costs €59. How much would 37 tickets cost?
5. What is the difference between 19 × 38 and 29 × 43?
6. How much less than 5500 is 87 × 48? 7. Freya saved €35 a week for a year. Abigail saved €57 a week for 28 weeks. Who saved the most money?
8. A concert venue has 97 rows of seats and has 88 seats in each row. For 1 night of the pop concert 6872 tickets were sold. How many seats were left empty?
9. Try the following in your copy. Use your calculator to check your answer. a) 27 × 24 b) 36 × 28 c) 34 × 29 d) 68 × 56 e) 47 × 28 f) 58 × 34 g) 36 × 52 h) 89 × 39 i) 19 × 47 j) 93 × 63 k) 29 × 26 l) 94 × 28
f) 39 × 21
f) 63 × 79
g) 48 × 12
g) 29 × 36
h) 18 × 91
h) 87 × 29
Puzzler
Can you use multiplication to estimate the number of people who could sit in the stands at this rugby match?