Math Tutor Explains: Multiples of 4321

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 4321, you could start at 4321, and keep adding 4321 over and over: 4321, 8642, 12963, 17284, and so on. Each of these numbers is a multiple of 4321. 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 4321, you could just multiply 4321 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 4321? Let’s write it out using the multiplication method:

So, the first 10 multiples of 4321 are: 4321, 8642, 12963, 17284, 21605, 25926, 30247, 34568, 38889 and 43210.

There are an endless number of multiples of 4321. You could choose any number to multiply by 4321 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 585 - The first five multiples of 585 are 585, 1170, 1755, 2340, 2925

Multiples of 933 - The first five multiples of 933 are 933, 1866, 2799, 3732, 4665

Multiples of 281 - The first five multiples of 281 are 281, 562, 843, 1124, 1405

Multiples of 679 - The first five multiples of 679 are 679, 1358, 2037, 2716, 3395

Multiples of 178 - The first five multiples of 178 are 178, 356, 534, 712, 890