What is the definition for multiply?

Answer 1

let's take a number, say 2 for example and multiply it by 3. That means we take three twos. So 3x2 mean 2+2+2 (we did it three times) or 3+3 (we did that two times and it came out the same) Here is a formal math definition: The operation that, for positive integers, consists of adding a number (the multiplicand) to itself a certain number of times. The operation is extended to other real numbers according to the rules governing the multiplicational properties of positive integers. Dr. Chuck aka mathdoc