"Mennyi nyolcszor három?"

Translation: How much is eight times three?

[csarkesz]

Could we also say "How many is/are eight times three? After all this seems like something that is very precisely countable.

[mizinamo]

But we're not counting anything!

We're dealing with abstract numbers "eight" and "three".

So the result is not twenty-four somethings, but simply another abstract number, twenty-four -- which I suppose works more like a quantity.

And a Google search for "how many is eight times" (including quotes) gives three results for me (well, four, but two of them are the same result) -- "how much is eight times" gives many.

[lavoslav]

Isn't it more common in English to ask "what is eight times three"?

[ion1122]

Yes, 'what is' is more often said then 'how much is' or 'how many is/are'

[Patricia460976]

Not where I'm from.

[GregWood15]

Certainly in the classroom.

[Judit294350]

Google search may not accurately reflect what people actually say. "how many" feels more natural to me.