• Here in this example there are 3 groups of 4
apples.
Instead of writing 4+4+4= 12, we write
4×3=12
• We can also write it as
no of objects in each group × no of groups= total
number of objects
Here we have, 4 apples in each group and there
are 3 groups, so the total number of apples are
4×3=12.