Find the product using a suitable property:
854×102
854×102
102 can be splitted as (100 + 2)
= 854×(100+2)
(0.5 mark)
Now, we can use the distributive property,
a×(b+c) = (a×b) + (a×c)
(0.5 mark)
We get,
= (854×100)+(854×2)
= 85400+1708
= 87108
(0.5 mark)