Multiply or Divide? A
Is this problem multiplication or division?
The school is planning a field trip. There are 144 students and 24 seats on each school bus. How many buses are needed to take the trip?
Division
Is this problem multiplication or division?
Helen has 8 boxes of candies. Each box holds 23 candies. How many candies does Helen have?
Multiply
Is this problem multiplication or division?
Douglas went to the store 3 times last month. He buys 32 peanuts each time he goes to the store. How many peanuts did Douglas buy last month?
Multiplication
Is this problem multiplication or division?
There are 2,160 apples in Michelle's apple collection. If the apples are organized into 30 groups, how big is each group?
Division
Nathan weeds gardens for $14. He weeds 25 gardens. How much money did he make?
$350
A group of students is selling raffle tickets to raise money for their school. They sold 1,248 tickets at $6 apiece. How much more did they raise?
$7,488
Will works at Krispy Kreme. Their store makes 418 donuts per hour. After an 8 hour shift, how many donuts will have been made?
3,344 donuts
Zach can pedal his bike 324 times in 4 minutes. How many times can he pedal his bike in 1 minute?
81 times per minute
Mayley has 336 pieces of candy corn. She wants to share them evenly among her 6 friends. How many pieces of candy corn will each friend get?
56 pieces of candy corn
Hailey is making treat bags for his friends to take home from his birthday party. He has invited 24 friends. Each treat bag will contain 36 pieces of candy. How many pieces of candy does he need to make his treat bags?
864 pieces of candy
A supermarket gets a shipment of 826 egg cartons. If each carton contains a dozen eggs, how many eggs are there in all?
9,912 eggs
Allie spends 406 minutes helping her family every 7 weeks around the house. She helped out the same number of minutes each week. How many minutes did she help each week?
58 minutes
Within a haunted house there are all kinds of terrors. In the basement, looking out of the deep dark are 408 red eyes. If each creature lurking down there has 12 eyes, how many creatures reside in the deep dark basement?
34 creatures
Hayden read on her box of orange juice, that it takes 168 oranges to make a vat (or batch) of orange juice. If a company produces 89 vats (or batches) of orange juice in a day, how many oranges do they use in a day?
14,952 oranges
James’ needs to buy more toilet paper for his home. He buys a package that has 365 sheets of toilet paper on each roll. There are 24 rolls of toilet paper in the package. How many sheets of toilet paper will did he buy?
8,760 sheets of toilet paper
In the kitchen of a haunted house is a wicked witch, cooking her witchy brew. Each brew requires 14 nose warts. If she currently has 406 nose warts (sale at the black market), how many brews can she cook up?
29 brews
Ian’s pencil factory can make 418 pencils in one second. How many pencils can his factory make in 15 seconds?
6,270 pencils
There is an old house that is said to be haunted. The house is made up of 4,320 bricks, all stolen from a graveyard. The house has 24 sections with the same amount of bricks, how many bricks make up each section?
180 bricks
When no one else is in the haunted house, 4,850 ghosts roam the halls. But, the minute someone enters, they flee and hide into the nooks and crannies of the house. If each nook/cranny can hold 50 ghosts, how many nooks and crannies are there?
97 nooks and crannies
A truck has just arrived at a factory to pick up a load of pencils for Ian’s business. There are fifty-six boxes of pencils waiting to be loaded. Each box contains 258 pencils. How many total pencils are going onto the truck?
14, 448 pencils