Factors/Multiples
Ms. Dershem has 21 students in her class. She wants to buy a pack of gum for each student as a gift. If each pack of gum has 12 pieces. How many pieces of gum will she give out total?
252 pieces of gum.
The librarian was given a new budget of $3,647 to purchase books for the school library. She spent $6 per student so that each student had one new book. There are 521 students in the school. She intended to use any left over money to purchase new headphones for the computer lab. How much money was left for her to buy headphones with?
$521 was left over in her budget.
Nicole and her mom are getting ready for her birthday party. Her mom got 43 balloons for the party. If Nicole divides the balloons evenly among 5 tables, how many balloons will each table get?
If there is a remainder, how did you handle the remainder in the problem?
1. Leave it as a whole number
2. Turn it into a fraction
3. Turn it into a decimal number
8 balloons with 3 balloons left over (leave it as a whole number).
It takes Kaylee 1 5/6 hours to run around a path. How many minutes does it take her to run around the path?
110 minutes to run around the path.
A certain rectangle has an area of 161 square meters. This rectangle is 7 meters wide. How long is it?
23 meters long.
How many factors are there in the number 64?
7 factors.
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64
A donation center had filled up 44 small bins with canned food with each bin containing 24 cans. They plan to send the cans out to 4 food banks but want to give each food bank the same number of cans. How many cans should they give to each food bank?
264 cans.
A developer was buying land. He bought 4 acres at $1,863 per acre. He then split the land he purchased into 9 lots. How much should he sell each lot for just to break even?
828 acres.
Nicole ran around a 24 kilometer path 1 1/2 times three days in a row. How many kilometers did she run on those three days in all?
108 kilometers.
A paved bike trail has an area of 3,304 square feet. If the trail is 8 feet wide, how long is the trail?
413 feet long.
What is the greatest common factor of the numbers 36 and 48?
6.
While playing a game Nancy defeated 5 enemies with each enemy defeated earning her 3,012 points. If she traded in all her points for 3 extra lives, how many points is it per life?
5,020 points per life.
Sarah's mother had 17 small photo albums filled with 72 photos in each. In order to save some space she bought 9 larger albums with each album having 40 pages. If she wanted to put all her pictures into the large albums, with the same number of pictures in each, how many pictures should be in each album?
136 pictures.
Robin needed 3 2/3 feet of thread to finish a pillow she was making. If she has 2 times as much thread as she needs, what is the length of the thread she has?
7 1/3 feet
Dianne is raking leaves in her backyard. Dianne's backyard is rectangular and has an area of 378 square feet. One side of the backyard is 42 feet. How long is the other side?
9 feet.
Two teachers want to make four equal groups for a class project in their separate classrooms. They each have a different class size. Teacher A places 9 students in a group and Teacher B places six students in each group. How many students are in Teacher A's class? How many students are in Teacher B's class?
Teacher A: 36 students
Teacher B: 24 students
Mike and Olivia were comparing their Halloween candy. Mike received 4 times as much candy as Olivia received. Mike then split his candy evenly into 3 piles to eat later. If Olivia received 75 ounces of candy, how many ounces of candy would be in each of Mike's piles?
100 ounces of candy in each pile.
A contractor bought 44 boxes of nails at a price of $1 per box. Each box contained contained 56 nails. If he distributed the nails to the 4 houses he was building and made sure each house received the same number of nails, how many nails would each house get?
616 nails.
After a party there was 1 ⁄ 2 of a pizza leftover. If the George gave 1 ⁄ 2 of the leftover to Olivia, what fraction of the pizza did he give to her?
1/4 of the pizza.
Tracy made a quilt. The quilt is 92 inches by 37 inches. What is the area of Tracy's quilt?
3,404 square inches.
12 cups of flour.
At the flea market Jerry found 7 buckets of LEGOs with each bucket containing 9,792 LEGO pieces. If he wanted to split the LEGO pieces into 6 piles, how many pieces should he put into each pile?
11,424 pieces in each pile.
An industrial machine made 9,096 cans of diet sodas and 5 times as many regular sodas over the course of 53 minutes. The regular sodas were then placed into 2 shipping boxes with each shipping box containing the same number of sodas. How many regular sodas were in each shipping box.
22,740 in each box.
A air freshener used 3 3 ⁄ 4 milliliters of perfume. If Wendy wanted to make 3 air freshners, how many milliliters of perfume would she use?
11 1/4 milliliters.
There is a rectangular path for running in Kaylee's town. She runs around the path every day. One side of the path is 7 1/2 miles long. Another side is 4 1/2 miles long. What is the perimeter of the path?
24 miles long.