What's the sum of the first 556 multiples of 47

What's the sum of the first 556 multiples of 47?

[Guillaume]

Looks like homework.

What is the difficulty in solving this yourself?

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

47*sum(0:555)

[Kamini Sewda]

Azzi, its not working.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What does that mean? how it's not working?

Answer 2

[David Sanchez]

% sum of the first 556 multiples of 47?
the_multiples = 47*(1:556);
the_sum = sum(the_multiples);