Math Tutor Explains: Multiples of 3457

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 3457, you could start at 3457, and keep adding 3457 over and over: 3457, 6914, 10371, 13828, and so on. Each of these numbers is a multiple of 3457. 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 3457, you could just multiply 3457 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 3457? Let’s write it out using the multiplication method:

So, the first 10 multiples of 3457 are: 3457, 6914, 10371, 13828, 17285, 20742, 24199, 27656, 31113 and 34570.

There are an endless number of multiples of 3457. You could choose any number to multiply by 3457 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 928 - The first five multiples of 928 are 928, 1856, 2784, 3712, 4640

Multiples of 876 - The first five multiples of 876 are 876, 1752, 2628, 3504, 4380

Multiples of 159 - The first five multiples of 159 are 159, 318, 477, 636, 795

Multiples of 168 - The first five multiples of 168 are 168, 336, 504, 672, 840

Multiples of 994 - The first five multiples of 994 are 994, 1988, 2982, 3976, 4970