Basic Multiplication
Miriam has 9 baskets. There are 0 muffins in each basket. How many muffins are there in all the baskets?
0 muffins
Pat puts 48 raisins into groups to go on top of muffins. She wants each muffin to have the same number of raisins. She is making 8 muffins. How many raisins go in each group?
48 : 8 = 6
Answer: 6 raisins?
Palani is thinking of a number. When you multiply the number by 5, the product is 0. When you add the number to 5, the answer is 5. What number is Palani thinking of?
Answer: 0
Charlie bought 4 boxes of paper clips. Each box holds 80 paper clips. How many paper clips did he buy in all?
320 paper clips
Mrs. Jackson gave 5 sheets of green drawing paper to each of 3 students. Then she gave 2 sheets of blue drawing paper to each of the students. How many sheets of drawing paper did Mrs. Jackson give out?
5 x 3 = 15
2 x 3 = 6
15 + 6 = 21
21 sheets
There are 27 students in Ms. Diaz's class are forming equal groups. Each group will study a different planet: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. How many students should be in each group?
27 : 9 = 3
Answer: 3 students?
Aldo started by making mini sandwiches. If he has 4 friends coming over and he made 3 sandwiches for each one of them, how many sandwiches did he make/.
Answer: 12 sandwiches
Max delivered 3 bundles of newspapers and Linda delivered 4 bundles. Each bundle had 105 newspapers. How many newspapers did they deliver in all?
105 x 7 = 735
There are 735 newspapers
The Parkside School was having a bake sale. There were 5 plates on each of 4 tables. Each plate had 2 cakes. How many cakes were on the 4 tables?
40 cakes
Sandy and Gwen collect stickers. Sandy has 36 stickers. She put stickers on 9 sheets with an equal number of stickers on each sheet. Gwen has 7 sheets with 5 stickers on each sheet. Who has more stickers on each sheet?
Gwen
Zoller School was having a plant sale. There were 5 trays at each of 4 tables. Each tray had 3 plants. How many plants were at each table?
Anwer: 5 x 3 = 15 plants?
Cheryl and Ron each have $2.95. They combine their money to rent a video for $4.50. How much money do they have left after paying for the video rental?
Cheryl and Ron money : 2 x $2.95 = $5.90
$5.90 - $4.50 = $1.40
Andrew's 5 friends decided to bring food as well. If each of them brought 5 slices of pizza and 3 bags and chips, how many slices of pizza do they have in total?
5 x 5 = 25 slices of pizza
Jamie has a piece of blue yarn that is 21 inches long. She cut the yarn into 3 equal pieces. She has a piece of red yarn that is 32 inches long. She cut the yarn into 4 equal pieces. Which were longer, the red pieces or the blue pieces?
red pieces
A group of people went on a river trip. There were 4 rafts with 5 people on each raft. There were 2 canoes with 1 person in each canoe. How many people in all were on the river trip?
Answer : raft 5 x 4 = 20 people
canoes 2 x 1 = 2
20 + 2 = 22
22 people
Cameron has 20 marbles and 3 bags. He puts the same number of marbles into each bag. How many marbles are left over?
2 marbles
Waneta is 8 years and 3 months old. How many months old is Waneta?
( 1 year = 12 months)
8 years = 8 x 12 = 96 months
96 + 3 = 99 months
Answer: 99 months
Shondra wants to put 24 plants in the rows of her garden. She wants to put the same number of plants in each row. She might put the plants in 3, 4, or 6 rows. For which number of rows would Shondra have the greatest number of plants in each row?
3 rows
Both boys were asked to count the number of chickens on the farm. Ben walked through 4 barns and counted a total 9 chicken coops. Vino said that there are 60 chickens in each coop. How many chickens do they have in total?
Answer: 9 x 60 = 540 chickens
There are 35 firefighters attending a meeting. Most of them are seated at tables. There are 8 firefighters at each table. The others are standing. How many are standing?
3 firefighter