8 times 1 is (once again) equal to 8. And if we wanted to write this down as a repeated addition, well this is literally 8 ones. So 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1 (let's see... that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) plus 1 plus 1 is equal to 8.