Q. A soup company ordered 4 shipments of carrots. There were 2,185 carrots in each shipment. How many carrots did the company order in all?____ carrots
Identify Task: First, let's figure out what we need to do: We have 4 shipments of carrots, and each shipment contains 2,185 carrots. To find the total number of carrots, we need to multiply the number of shipments by the number of carrots in each shipment.
Perform Multiplication: Now, let's do the multiplication: 4×2,185.
Calculate Total: Calculating 4×2,185 gives us 8,740. So, the total number of carrots ordered by the company is 8,740.
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