Multiplication word problems
A bakery makes 8 kinds of pastry. A coffee shop ordered 10 of each kind of pastry. How many pastries in total did the coffee shop order?
A nursery has 6 flowers to plant. If they can put 3 flowers in each pot, how many pots will the nursery need?
2 pots
A picnic supply company puts 90 plastic cups in each shipment. How many plastic cups are needed for 2 shipments?
180 cups
There are 5 ping-pong balls in each package. Theo needs 15 balls for a ping-pong tournament. How many packages does Theo need to buy?
3 packages
•Each shed at the garden supply store has 2 rows of boxes of extra rakes. There are 4 boxes in each row. If there are 5 rakes in each box, how many rakes are in each shed?
40 rakes
Tim bought 9 giant cookies, each of which cost $4. How much money did Tim spend?
$36 or 36 dollars
Mark hiked 70 miles in the past 7 days. He hiked the same distance every day. How many miles did Mark hike each day?
10 miles
The county owns 400 vans. There are 9 seats in each van. How many seats in total are there in the county's vans?
3,600 seats
Ruth made 3 equal piles of CDs. If she used 27 CDs in all, how many CDs did Ruth put in each stack?
9 CD'S
•Each chair lift has 5 chairs, and each chair has 4 seats. How many seats are there in all on 4 chair lifts?
80 seats
•The school puts 9 playground balls in each box. How many playground balls will there be in 6 boxes?
54 playground balls
•It takes 4 stamps to mail a package. If Joe has 36 stamps, how many packages can he mail?
9 packages
A factory puts 2,000 picture frames in each shipment. How many picture frames will the factory put in 4 shipments?
8,000
Curtis made 6 equal stacks of wooden blocks. How many blocks did Curtis put in each stack if he used 24 blocks in all?
4 blocks
•A fast food restaurant ordered paper plates. Each package contains 5 stacks of plates, and there are 5 paper plates in each stack. How many paper plates are there in 4 packages?
100 paper plates
A teacher has 7 boxes of markers. Each box has 9 markers. How many markers does the teacher have?
63 makers
•For his model railroad, Andrew used 42 cars to make 7 trains. Each train had the same number of cars. How many cars are in each train?
6 cars
There are 40 bags of beans. Each bag contains 70 beans. How many beans are there in all?
2,800 beans
A candle company can fit 7 candles in each shipping box. If they need to ship an order of 63 candles, how many boxes should the company use?
9 boxes
•Cassie is baking cookies. She puts exactly 3 sprinkles on top of each cookie. She places 5 rows of 3 cookies on each cookie sheet before they go in the oven. How many sprinkles will Cassie use on each cookie sheet?
45 sprinkles
Zoe did 6 sets of sit-ups. She did 12 sit-ups in each set. How many sit-ups did Zoe do in total?
72 sit ups
•Nate's school hung up 63 banners in the gym. They distributed the banners in 7 even rows. How many banners are in each row?
9 banners
A factory makes 200 breath mints per day. How many breath mints will the factory make in 90 days?
18,000 breath mints
•If Shannel's photo album holds 9 photos per page, how many pages will she use for 81 photos?
9 pages
A law firm keeps all of their documents in files. They put 5 documents in each file, and 5 files in each drawer. How many documents are there in 5 drawers?
125 documents