At Hank’s cafe, he sells big stack pancakes which have 5 pancakes and short stack pancakes which have 3 pancakes. If 9 customers order the short stack and 6 customers order the big stack, how many pancakes does Hank need to make?
Let’s work this out in a step by step way to be sure we have the right answer.
57
For the short stack orders, Hank needs to make 3 x 9 = 27 pancakes.

For the big stack orders, he needs to make 5 x 6 = 30 pancakes.

Altogether, Hank needs to make 27 + 30 = 57 pancakes.

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Therefore, the answer is 57