Math Tutor Explains: Multiples of 4986

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 4986, you could start at 4986, and keep adding 4986 over and over: 4986, 9972, 14958, 19944, and so on. Each of these numbers is a multiple of 4986. 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 4986, you could just multiply 4986 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 4986? Let’s write it out using the multiplication method:

So, the first 10 multiples of 4986 are: 4986, 9972, 14958, 19944, 24930, 29916, 34902, 39888, 44874 and 49860.

There are an endless number of multiples of 4986. You could choose any number to multiply by 4986 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 356 - The first five multiples of 356 are 356, 712, 1068, 1424, 1780

Multiples of 114 - The first five multiples of 114 are 114, 228, 342, 456, 570

Multiples of 184 - The first five multiples of 184 are 184, 368, 552, 736, 920

Multiples of 891 - The first five multiples of 891 are 891, 1782, 2673, 3564, 4455

Multiples of 701 - The first five multiples of 701 are 701, 1402, 2103, 2804, 3505