Multiplication
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Two Step Word Problems
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Martez has to plant seeds in a garden. He will plant the seeds in 4 rows of 9. 

He used the following equation to figure out how many seeds he will plant in total. 

4x9+36

What does the 9 represent?



How many seeds in each row

100

Daria has 42 baseball gloves in her store. She will put these gloves on 7 shelves, putting the same number of gloves on each shelf. How many gloves will Daria put on each shelf?

6

100

4x9=9x___

4

100

Miss Lianto orders 4 packs of 7 markers. After passing out 1 marker to each student in her class, she has 6 left. Write an expression to figure out how many students are in her class.

(4x7)-6

200

What equation represents the context described below?

Kaden runs 3 miles. Each mile takes him 9 minutes. How much time does it take Kaden to run 3 miles?

3x9=27

200

There were 40 paintbrushes in the art room. The art teacher, Mr. Edwards separated the paint brushes equally onto the eight tables in his room. How many paintbrushes at each table?

5

200

What number goes in the blank to make the number sentence true?

 12×2=(___ ×2)+(2×2)

10

200

Ms. Egeregor buys 27 books for her classroom library. She buys an equal number of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books. She shelves all of the poetry books first. How many books Ms. Egeregor has left to shelve?

18

(27-9)

300

What is another expression is another way to find 3×7?

3+3+3+3+3+3+3 OR 7x3 

300

Georgette wants to read 50 pages in her book over the next 5 days. She uses the following equation to figure out how many pages to read each day. 

50÷5=10

Which number in the equation above represents the number of pages Georgette needs to read each day?

10

300

7x9=9x___

7

300

Rose has 5 pieces of yarn that are each 2 centimeters long. Sasha gives Rose a piece of yarn. Now, Rose has a total of 81 centimeters of yarn. What is the length of the yarn that Sasha gives Rose?

81-(5x2)=71

400

Mia arranged 24 desks in her classroom. She put them into rows of 4. How many rows did she have?

6

400

48 students attending a school field trip are placed into groups with 6 students per group. What expression can be used to show the total number of groups formed?

48÷6

400

What expression is equal to 3×7?

(3x5) + (3x2)

400

The gift shop sells red and white paper plates. They have 20 packs of red plates and 25 packs of white plates. All packs of plates are on 5 shelves with the same number of packs on each shelf. How many packs of plates are on each shelf?

(20+25) divided by 5=9

500

At a theme park near Tampa, Ellie experiences 2 rides shut down each day for maintenance during her 5 day trip. What expression could be used to find the total number of rides shut down for maintenance?

5x2

500

Emma put stickers on her books. She had 8 books and 72 stickers. She put the same number of stickers on each book. What expression shows how to find the number of stickers she put on each book?

72÷8

500

An equation is shown.

8×7=8×(5+___ )

What is the missing value?

2

500

Mrs. Horn needs 50 rulers for the art room. She has 7 packs with 2 rulers in each pack. How many more rulers does she need?

50-(7x2)=36

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