Bob had 3 crates. He had 5 calculus textbooks in each. How many calculus textbooks in all? 15 calculus textbooks.
3x5=15 3 x5
The answer of a multiplication problem ex. 3x5=15 15 would be the product
Commutivity of multiplication or the commutative property of multiplication.
The generalisation is that multiplication is Abelian (or commutative) for numbers.
3(7)
The * is another way to write the times sign (x) for a multiplication problem.
"What is 3*(-5)" would be such a problem.
2/3 = 2 x 1/3
A product is an answer to a multiplication problem.
The product is the answer in a multiplication problem. 3 x 6 = 18 The product of 3 and 6 is 18.
In the multiplication sentence 3x5=15, the numbers 3 and 5 are known as factors. Factors are the numbers that are multiplied together to obtain a product. In this case, 3 and 5 are the factors that, when multiplied, result in the product of 15.
The answer to a multiplication problem is called the product.