Math Tutor Explains: Multiples of 1976

For a beginner, a math tutor suggests that you can find the multiples of a number by skip-counting to the next number. For Instance, if you want to find the multiples of 1976, you could start at 1976, and keep adding 1976 over and over: 1976, 3952, 5928, 7904, and so on. Each of these numbers is a multiple of 1976. Typically, this works best only for smaller numbers, as adding larger numbers together over and over can be difficult.

Another way to do this is to use multiplication. To find the first few multiples of 1976, you could just multiply 1976 by each number in sequence, first multiplying by 1, then 2, then 3, and so on, which we will outline below.

So, what are the multiples of 1976? Let’s write it out using the multiplication method:

So, the first 10 multiples of 1976 are: 1976, 3952, 5928, 7904, 9880, 11856, 13832, 15808, 17784 and 19760.

There are an endless number of multiples of 1976. You could choose any number to multiply by 1976 to find a new multiple!

• Every number is considered the smallest multiple of itself.

• A multiple of a number is very often also the multiple of another number. This is because if you multiply two numbers together, the result is a multiple of both numbers.

• All multiples of even numbers are even.

• The multiples of odd numbers, in sequence, alternate between odd and even numbers.

• You can also find the negative multiples of a number by multiplying by negative numbers.

Finding multiples of any number can be done using the same methods as outlined above. You can see how this can be done with specific numbers, like the ones below, by clicking on the any of the links below:

Multiples of 238 - The first five multiples of 238 are 238, 476, 714, 952, 1190

Multiples of 952 - The first five multiples of 952 are 952, 1904, 2856, 3808, 4760

Multiples of 915 - The first five multiples of 915 are 915, 1830, 2745, 3660, 4575

Multiples of 302 - The first five multiples of 302 are 302, 604, 906, 1208, 1510

Multiples of 598 - The first five multiples of 598 are 598, 1196, 1794, 2392, 2990