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Problem of the Week
Problem B
The Apartments are Multiplying

Alisa's apartment building has \(12\) floors, with \(6\) apartments on each floor. We have the following information about three other apartment buildings.

Use this information to complete the following table. How does the total number of apartments change from one row to the next?

Building Owner Number of Floors Number of Apartments per Floor Total Number of Apartments
Alisa \(12\) \(6\)
Bettina
Colin
Dara

Extension: Ferid's apartment building has \(20\) apartments in total. Compared to Ferid's building, Gauri's apartment building has five times as many floors, but the same number of apartments per floor. How many apartments in total does Gauri's building have?

Themes: Computational Thinking, Number Sense