Question

Find the product using suitable properties:

$258\times 1008$

Answer 1

$258\times 1008$

1008 can be split as (1000 + 8) as calculations with 1000 (or any power of 10) makes it easier and faster.

$=258\times (1000+8)$

Now we can use the distributive property,

a×(b+c) = (a×b) + (a×c)

and we can take 258 common
= $(258\times 1000)+(258\times 8)$

=$258000+2064$

= $260064$