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Solution: multiplying by 25

Solution: multiplying by 25

This is a solution video for the previous task where you were asked to mentally multiply by 25.

The task is to calculate 14 times 25.

Hint 1: When we multiply by 100 it makes the number 100 times bigger.

Hint 2: When we then divide by 4, so a quarter of 100, we have done the equivalence of multiplying by 25.

Note: These tasks come from ‘Max Maths Primary – A Singapore Approach’.

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