Finding Products by "Breaking it Up"
What is the product of 31 × 11? 31 and 11 can be written in expanded form. 31 = 30 + 1 11 = 10 + 1
Multiply each part of the expanded form together
31 x 11 = (30 + 1) x (10 + 1)
If we were to add all these up together, we would get the product of 341.