100 x 3 = 300
100 times 3 is 300. Three hundreds added together, or the digit 3 placed in front of the two zeros. The working, a calculator and the nearby answers are below.
100 × 3 = 300
Adding 100 to itself 3 times gives the same answer.
The working
Three lots of a hundred: 100 + 100 + 100 = 300. As a shift, the 3 takes the two zeros from the 100 and becomes 300. Checking backwards, 300 divided by 3 = 100 and 300 divided by 100 = 3.
Not the same as 100 cubed
This is the one place people go badly wrong with a 3. “100 times 3” and “100 to the power of 3” get typed almost the same way, but the answers are nowhere near each other.
- 100 x 3 = 300, three hundreds added
- 100 to the power of 3 = 100 x 100 x 100 = 1000000, a hundred multiplied by itself three times
The second answer is more than three thousand times larger than the first. If a result comes back in the millions when you expected hundreds, an exponent is the usual reason.
300 as a quantity
Because an hour is 60 minutes, 300 minutes is exactly 5 hours with nothing left over. That makes 300 a handy number to recognise when you are stacking up sessions of 100 minutes or converting a run of minutes into hours.
The rest of the run
Either side of this one sit 100 x 2 = 200 and 100 x 5 = 500. Swap the hundred for a thousand and you get 1000 x 3 = 3000.