If the question was "A mother bear and her cub catch fish from a river. The cub catches 10 fish and the mother bear catches 5 times as many as the cub. How many fish did the cub catch?" then the answer would be, The mother bear caught 50 fish.
This is because if the cub caught 10, and the mother caught 5 times that amount, the mother caught 5 x 10 fish. 5 x 10 = 50.
