A store is getting ready for a back-to-school sale. They have 24 rows of 12 boxes of colored pencils. Each box has 64 colored pencils. How

Question

many colored pencils are in the display?
a. 18,302 colored pencils
b. 18,432 colored pencils
c. 18,032 colored pencils
d. 710 colored pencils

Answer 1

To find out how many colored pencils are in the display, we can start by calculating the total number of boxes and then multiply that by the number of colored pencils in each box.

1. First, calculate the total number of boxes: \[ \text{Total boxes} = \text{rows} \times \text{boxes per row} = 24 \times 12 = 288 \]

2. Next, calculate the total number of colored pencils: \[ \text{Total colored pencils} = \text{total boxes} \times \text{colored pencils per box} = 288 \times 64 \]

   Now, we perform the multiplication: \[ 288 \times 64 = 18432 \]

Thus, the total number of colored pencils in the display is 18,432.

The correct answer is: b. 18,432 colored pencils.