Math Tutor Explains: Multiples of 4800

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 4800, you could start at 4800, and keep adding 4800 over and over: 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, and so on. Each of these numbers is a multiple of 4800. 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 4800, you could just multiply 4800 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 4800? Let’s write it out using the multiplication method:

So, the first 10 multiples of 4800 are: 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, 24000, 28800, 33600, 38400, 43200 and 48000.

There are an endless number of multiples of 4800. You could choose any number to multiply by 4800 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 400 - The first five multiples of 400 are 400, 800, 1200, 1600, 2000

Multiples of 556 - The first five multiples of 556 are 556, 1112, 1668, 2224, 2780

Multiples of 35 - The first five multiples of 35 are 35, 70, 105, 140, 175

Multiples of 257 - The first five multiples of 257 are 257, 514, 771, 1028, 1285

Multiples of 255 - The first five multiples of 255 are 255, 510, 765, 1020, 1275