Question

Edison helps his parents in harvesting mangoes in their orchard. He puts all the harvested mangoes in 32 baskets with each basket containing 312 mangoes.how many mangoes are harvested in all?
What is asked in the problem?
What operation are you going to use?
How will you solve the problem?

Answer 1

Answer:

they asked about how many harvested mangoes

we can use cross multiplication

1 basket 312 mangoes

1 - 312

32 - ?

mangoes harvested =

$312 \times 32$

Answer 2

Given - Total mangoes : 312

Total baskets : 32

Find - What is asked in the problem?

What operation are you going to use?

How will you solve the problem?

Solution - Problem asks for solution of number of harvested mangoes.

Multiplication operation will be used in the problem.

Problem is solved as follows -

Edison uses 32 baskets. Each basket contains 312 mangoes.

So, total number of mangoes will be : 32*312

Total number of mangoes = 9984

Hence, the total number of mangoes harvested is 9984.