Calculate Total Cost: 5 Meals at $43 Each Using Multiplication

Sonia buys 5 meals.

The price of each meal is $43.

How much does Sonia pay in total?

To solve this problem, we'll calculate the total cost by multiplying the number of meals by the cost of each meal:

• Step 1: Identify the given information: Sonia buys 5 meals, and each meal costs 43.

• Step 2: Multiply the number of meals by the price per meal to determine the total cost.

Now, let's perform the calculation:
Sonia buys \( 5 meals, and each costs \43 \). Therefore, the total cost is:

$\text{Total Cost} = 5 \times 43$

We calculate:

$5 \times 43 = 215$

Therefore, Sonia pays a total of $215 for the 5 meals.

Since the multiple-choice option that matches our solution is choice 2, we confirm that the correct answer is \215 \).