Math Tutor Explains: Multiples of 4987

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 4987, you could start at 4987, and keep adding 4987 over and over: 4987, 9974, 14961, 19948, and so on. Each of these numbers is a multiple of 4987. 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 4987, you could just multiply 4987 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 4987? Let’s write it out using the multiplication method:

So, the first 10 multiples of 4987 are: 4987, 9974, 14961, 19948, 24935, 29922, 34909, 39896, 44883 and 49870.

There are an endless number of multiples of 4987. You could choose any number to multiply by 4987 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 326 - The first five multiples of 326 are 326, 652, 978, 1304, 1630

Multiples of 136 - The first five multiples of 136 are 136, 272, 408, 544, 680

Multiples of 811 - The first five multiples of 811 are 811, 1622, 2433, 3244, 4055

Multiples of 40 - The first five multiples of 40 are 40, 80, 120, 160, 200

Multiples of 320 - The first five multiples of 320 are 320, 640, 960, 1280, 1600