>>Hi everybody,
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>>Trying to figure out what does this 3rd grade question mean:
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>>"Why do you sometimes have only one multiplication sentence for an array?"
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>>Actually, I think after I wrote this question, I figured this out (I guess this is what it meant):
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>>It's when you have a number squared. 3x3, 4x4, etc.
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>Huh? First off, I don't understand the question at all. What's a multiplication sentence? Unless it's a "you get six times the 25 to life". And what's an array in this case? I didn't see any DIMENSION statement...
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>It seems the maths, as taught in schools, has its own language, worse in precision than english itself.

Yes, I don't remember learning arrays and multiplication sentences when I was a kid. However, as I understood, the sentence is a simple

10*5=50 (for example) and the array is the array of dimension of 10*5 (or 5*10) and you can count cells to figure the result.