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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

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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.
Sum
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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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