Because you can obtain the same results by adding the number the amount of times of the other number.
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It is a special case of multiplication by a positive integer.
Multiplication is repeated addition.
a multiplication form is repeated addition
Multiplication by an integer is the same as repeated addition.
For the specific case of whole numbers, you can consider multiplication to be repeated addition; and division to be repeated subtraction (see how often you can subtract something).