Word Problems
A school is ordering new notebooks. Each box contains 24 notebooks. If the school orders 8 boxes, how many notebooks will they receive?
192 notebooks
The product of 36 × 100.
what is 3600?
What is 45,000 ÷ 1,000?
45
864 ÷ 12
72
What fraction represents 3 out of 8 equal parts?
A farmer harvested 1,248 apples. He packed them equally into 6 large crates. How many apples went into each crate?
208 apple into each crate.
The product of 28 x 400.
What is 11,200?
What is 45,000 ÷ 5,000?
9
4,687 ÷ 36
130 R7
A movie starts at 2:15 p.m. and finishes at 3:45 p.m. How long is the movie?
1 hour and 30 minutes
TWO STEP PROBLEM: The Grade 5/6 class is going on a field trip. There are 17 students in the class and each student needs to pay $12. The school has already collected $85. How much more money needs to be collected?
Total cost: 17 students x $12 each =$204
Money needed: $204(total cost) - $85(already collected) = $119
A school orders 24 boxes of pencils. Each box has 125 pencils. How many pencils are there altogether?
What is 3,000?
A teacher has 84 pencils to share equally among 4 classroom groups. How many pencils will each group receive?
21 pencils
947 ÷ 14
67 R 9
Solve: 6 + 4 × 3
18
TWI STEP PROBLEM: A bookstore received 24 boxes of books. Each box contained 36 books. They sold 285 books during the first week. How many books do they have left?
Total books : 24 boxes x 36 books in each = 864 books
864(total books) - 285 (books sold) = 579 books left.
A theatre has 36 rows with 248 seats in each row. How many seats are there?
What is 8,928?
A baker has 925 cookies to divide equally among 5 schools. How many cookies does each school receive?
185 cookies
2,356 ÷ 32
73 R20
List ALL the factors of 24. (hint: there's 8!)
1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24
MULTI STEP CHALLENGE:
A school is organizing a fundraiser. They sell 28 tickets for $15 each on Friday and 36 tickets for $15 each on Saturday. The cost of running the event is $175. The remaining money is shared equally between 5 classrooms. How much money does each classroom receive?
Friday: 28 tickets x $15 = $420
Saturday: 36 tickets x $15= $540
Total money made: $420 + $540 =$960
Leftover money: $960 (money made) - $175 (cost of running the event) = $785 leftover!
$785 split equally (DIVIDE!!!) between 5 classrooms = $157 for each class!
A printing company prints 685 pages for each of 48 different booklets. How many pages does the company print altogether?
What is 32, 880 pages?
A teacher has 157 stickers to share equally among 6 students. How many stickers will each student receive, and how many stickers will be left over?
26 stickers each. 1 sticker left over.
A warehouse has 3,785 items to pack into boxes. Each box holds 48 items. How many full boxes can they fill, and how many items will be left over?
78 full boxes, with 41 items left over
I am a prime number between 20 and 40. I am odd, and my digits add up to 5. What number am I?
23