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Question
Tanu is making a stage with matchboxes.
She first puts 14 matchboxes like this in the first layer.
She makes 4 such layers and her stage looks like this.
- She used ________ matchboxes to make this stage.
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Solution
Number of matchboxes in 1 layer = 14
Number of layers that make the stage = 4
Total number of matchboxes in 4 layers
= 14 × 4
= 56
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