Math Tutor Explains: Multiples of 3421

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 3421, you could start at 3421, and keep adding 3421 over and over: 3421, 6842, 10263, 13684, and so on. Each of these numbers is a multiple of 3421. 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 3421, you could just multiply 3421 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 3421? Let’s write it out using the multiplication method:

So, the first 10 multiples of 3421 are: 3421, 6842, 10263, 13684, 17105, 20526, 23947, 27368, 30789 and 34210.

There are an endless number of multiples of 3421. You could choose any number to multiply by 3421 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 843 - The first five multiples of 843 are 843, 1686, 2529, 3372, 4215

Multiples of 606 - The first five multiples of 606 are 606, 1212, 1818, 2424, 3030

Multiples of 852 - The first five multiples of 852 are 852, 1704, 2556, 3408, 4260

Multiples of 256 - The first five multiples of 256 are 256, 512, 768, 1024, 1280

Multiples of 996 - The first five multiples of 996 are 996, 1992, 2988, 3984, 4980