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John had 5 bags of apples. There are 4 apples in each bag. How many apples are there?

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Hint:As the given question is with respect to real life scenario, hence read the question and understand it, as here write all the data given, as John had 5 bags of apples and there are 4 apples in each bag, hence by this data we can perform arithmetic operations and solve the sum to get the total number of apples.

Complete step by step answer:
Let us write the given data as:
John had 5 bags of apples There are 5 bags
There are 4 apples in each bag In 1 bag of apples there are 4 apples.
Hence, John had 5 times as many bags.
In 5 bags of apples there will be:
5×4=20 apples.
You can also think about this as:
As there are 5 bags
1bag+1bag+1bag+1bag+1bag
As there are 4 apples in each bag
4apples+4apples+4apples+4apples+4apples
Which implies that there are 20 apples.
Another method which seems easy is, by multiplying is the shortcut for repeated addition.
5×4= 20 apples

Therefore, there are 20 apples.

Additional information:
Arithmetic is the elementary branch which studies about numbers, their properties, and arithmetical operations. There are basically four operations: additions, subtraction, multiplication and division. Each operation helps us to calculate how more or less an object than the other.

Note:To solve the given question, we need to perform basic arithmetic operations in which we need to write the given data i.e John is having how many apples, number of apples in the bag and each bag how apples are there, hence by considering all the data given and comparing the quantity of apples present in each bag we can get the total number of apples.
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