500 x 100 = 50000

500 times 100 is 50000. Five hundred picks up two zeros. It is also half of 100000, since 500 is half of 1000. Below: the working, a calculator and nearby answers.

500 × 100 = 50,000

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Adding 500 to itself 100 times gives the same answer.

Two ways to see it

The direct route is to add two zeros to 500, which gives 50000. The check is to work from a rounder pair: 1000 x 100 = 100000, and 500 is half of 1000, so the answer is half of 100000. Half of 100000 is 50000. Both routes agree.

A ream makes this one concrete

A ream of paper is 500 sheets, which makes 500 a quantity people handle rather than an abstract number. Ten reams, the usual box, is 5000 sheets. A hundred reams is 50000 sheets. If you order paper by the box, this is the arithmetic on the invoice.

The 1% relationship

Multiplying by 100 and taking one percent are opposite moves, so every x 100 answer can be read backwards as a percentage. 500 is 1% of 50000. Put another way, 50000 is 500 hundreds. That gives you a fast check on the size of the answer: knock two zeros off 50000 and you should land back on 500.

Neighbours worth knowing

Each step multiplies the answer by ten. The rest of the pairs are on the multiplication answers hub.