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A stationery shop in Indore packs 12 pencils in a box and 24 boxes in a carton. How many pencils are there in 5 cartons?

Class 6Whole NumbersWhole Numbers
  • A288
  • B1,440
  • C120
  • D1,200

Step-by-Step Solution

The total is . Group the easy pair first, using the associative property: boxes, then pencils. Answering 288 counts only one carton , and 120 stops at the number of boxes without converting to pencils.
Answer: B) 1,440

Key idea: From counting to whole numbers

Natural numbers (1, 2, 3, …) answer 'how many?' when there is at least one of something. But what if there are none? You need a number for that — and that number is zero. Adding 0 to the natural numbers gives the whole numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, …. Every whole number sits at a fixed point on the number line, and they never run out — for any whole number you pick, there is always a larger one.

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