Question

There are 42 children in the classroom each student will get 28 pencils and 46 erasers how many pencils will the teacher have to give out. P.S. i messed up on the last question

Answer 1

Since the question is asking how many pencils the teacher will have to give out, we can automatically ignore the 46 erasers from the problem because it is not relevant. The information was most likely put there to confuse you.

Each student is getting 28 pencils, so if we multiply the number of students by 28 pencils, we will find how many pencils the teacher will need to give out.

There are 42 children in the classroom, so multiply 42 by 28.

42 * 28 = 1,176

The teacher will have to give out 1,176 pencils to her 42 children in the classroom.

Answer 2

There are 42 children in the classroom. Each student gets 28 pencils. All you have to do is multiply 42 by 28.

The phrase "and 46 erasers " is mentioned to trick, or confuse you. That part doesn't matter.

Now multiply 42 by 28

$42 \times 28 = 1,176$

• The teacher will have to give out 1,176 pencils.