Multiplication
A piece of ribbon is 136 cm long. Find the total length of 24 such pieces of ribbon.
136 x 24 = 3264
3264 cm
A shopkeeper packed 7032 greeting cards into boxes of 8. How many boxes of greeting cards did he get?
7032 : 8 = 879
879 boxes
Mary baked some cookies. She ate 4 cookies and packed the rest equally into 9 tins. There were 108 cookies in each tin. How many cookies did Mary bake?
108 x 9 = 972
972 + 4 = 976
She baked 976 cookies.
Janet had 210 lollipops. She gave each of her pupils 7 lollipops and had 28 lollipops left. How many pupils did she have?
210 - 28 = 182
182 : 7 = 26
She had 26 pupils.
A fruit seller had 1042 oranges. He packed all the oranges into bags of 6 to sell. What is the most number of bags of mangoes that he can get?
1024 : 6 = 173 R 4
The most number of bags of oranges that he can get is 173.
A fruit seller packed 40 mangoes into a box. If he packed 259 boxes, how many mangoes were there?
259 x 40 = 10 360
10 360 mangoes
968 tourists want to visit the museum. Each van can seat 9 people. Find the least number of vans needed to fetch the tourists to the museum.
968 : 9 = 107 R 5
The least number of vans needed is 108
A shopkeeper bought some pencils. He packed all the pencils into 297 packets and had 9 pencils left. If there were 12 pencils in each packet, how many pencils did he buy?
297 x 12 = 3564
3564 + 9 = 3573
He bought 3573 pencils.
Nancy had 428 beads. She gave 230 beads to her sister and used the rest to make bracelets. If she used 9 beads to make each bracelet, how many bracelets did she get?
428 - 230 = 198
198 : 9 = 22
She got 22 bracelets.
Helen has two coins albums. There are 9 coins on each page of the album. The first album contains 324 coins. The second album contains 12 fewer pages than the first album. How many pages are there in the second album?
324 : 9 = 36
36 - 12 = 24
There are 24 pages in the second album.
A factory produces 2378 key chains each day. How many key chains can the factory produce in 9 days?
2378 x 9 = 21 402
21 402 key chains in 9 days.
Philip wants to buy 550 paper clips. The paper clips are sold in boxes of 8. What is the least number of boxes of paper clips that he needs to buy?
550 : 8 = 68 R 6
The least number of boxes of paper clips he needs to buy is 69.
Jane mixed 5948 ml of water with 1756 ml of rose syrup to make a rose drink. She poured the rose drink equally into 6 bottles. How much rose drink was there in each bottle?
5948 + 1756 = 7704
7704 : 6 = 1284
There was 1284 ml of rose drink in each bottle.
There were 196 boxes of erasers in a shop. Each box contained 45 erasers. If 108 erasers were sold, how many erasers were left?
196 x 45 = 8820
8820 - 108 = 8712
8712 erasers were left
Ivan bought 65 boxes of paper clips. There were 80 paper clips in each box. He repacked the paper clips into packets of 9 paper clips each. Find the most number of packets of paper clips he got.
65 x 80 = 5200
5200 : 9 = 577 R 7
The most number of packets of paper clips he got was 577.
An oven cost $829. A bakery ordered 6 ovens. How much does the bakery need to pay?
829 x 6 = 4974
$4974
Sarah needs to buy 1200 ice-cream sticks for her school project. The ice-cream sticks are sold in packets of 9. What is the least number of packets of ice-cream sticks that she needs to buy?
1200 : 0 = 133 R 3
The least number of ice-cream sticks that she need to buy is 134.
A shopkeeper sold each table for $298 and each chair for $126. How much did the shopkeeper receive for selling 9 tables and 24 chairs?
$298 x 9 = $2682
$126 x 24 = $3024
$2682 + $3024 = $5706
The shopkeeper received $5706.
Mr Johnson packed 235 bags of red balloons and some bags of blue balloons into 30 boxes. There were 15 bags of balloons in each box. How many bags of blue balloons were there?
30 x 15 = 450
450 - 235 = 215
There were 215 bags of blue balloons.
A fruit seller bought 33 baskets of mangosteens. Each basket contained 58 mangosteens. He sold 890 mangosteens. He then packed the rest of the mangosteens equally into 8 boxes. How many mangosteens were there in each box?
33 x 58 = 1914
1914 - 890 = 1024
1024 : 8 = 128
There were 128 mangosteens in each box.
A tailor had some buttons. He sewed 14 buttons on each jacket and had 52 buttons left. How many buttons did he have if he sewed the buttons on 214 jackets?
214 x 14 = 2996
2996 + 52 = 3048
He had 3048 buttons.
Pauline made 365 jam tarts. She packed all the tarts equally into 8 boxes with some left over. How many jam tarts were left over?
365 : 8 = 45 R 5
5 jam tarts were left over.
Cindy bought some lollipops. She packed them into packets of 18 lollipops each. She got 175 packets and 7 lollipops left. How many lollipops did she buy?
175 x 18 = 3150
3150 + 7 = 3157
She bought 3157 lollipops.
A shopkeeper bought 380 cartons of packet drinks. There were 36 packet drinks in each carton. He sold 54 cartons of packet drinks. How many packet drinks did the shopkeeper have left?
380 - 54 = 326
326 x 36 = 11 736
He had 11 736 packet drinks left.
Daryl had 2814 stickers. He gave away 36 stickers. His mother then gave him 295 stickers. He pasted all the stickers equally in 7 sticker albums. How many stickers did he paste in each album?
2814 - 36 = 2778
2778 + 295 = 3073
3073 : 7 = 439
He pasted 439 stickers in each sticker album.