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# Five Cookies per Plate

Math story 39 · Multiplication · Grade 2 · 0:37

## Read the story

The chicken family is setting the table.

There are 3 plates on the table.

Papa Rooster puts 5 cookies on each plate.

**How many cookies are there altogether?**

## Answer and working

There are 15 cookies! Because 5 plus 5 plus 5 is 15. That is 3 times 5.

`3 × 5 = 15`