Word Problems: Multiplication or Division
Johnson printing company printed 8074 copies of a book. The books were distributed evenly among 68 stores to sell. How many books were available to sell at each store?
8074/68
Nola is making party favor bags. She has 76 slap bracelets and wants to evenly distribute them to make 8 treat bags. How many slap bracelets will she put in each bag?
9
what is the product of 36 X 20?
720
What is the first step to solve a partial quotients division problem?
Write the easy multiplication facts for your divisor (1's, 2's, and 5's)
What is the answer to a multiplication problem called
What is the product
The Swamp Rabbit Cafe makes 175 sandwiches a day. each sandwich uses 4 slices of meat. How many slices of meat will the Cafe use per day?
175 X 4
Demetrius is stacking 114 cups. He wants to equally place the cups in 30 rows. Extra cups will not be used. How many cups will not get used?
24
which expression has the greatest value?
45 X 9
37 X 8
21 X 5
35 X 4
45 X 9
A librarian divides 1,830 books into boxes. Each box can hold a maximum of 50 books. What is the minimum number of boxes the librarian will need?
37
What is the number of groups in a division problem called? (number on the outside of the problem)
what is the divisor
Which will serve as a way to check the quotient of 852/12=71 ?
12 X 71
There are 110 fifth graders travelling on a field trip to a museum. Each bus holds 30 students. How many buses are needed to transport all of the students?
4
A high school is expecting 239 guests for a reunion. The caterer informs them the cost will be $18 per person.
4302
How many gallons of gas did the bus driver use last year?
76 gallons
What is the answer to a division problem called?
what is the quotient
The seating capacity of a concert hall is 2982. Chairs are being arranged into rows of 54. How many rows of chairs will there be?
2982/54
Kelli has 103 mini candy bars that she wants to distribute evenly among her 20 classmates. How many candy bars will each classmate get and how many will be left over?
5 bars each, 3 left over
Malachi sold 273 boxes of chocolates. Each box contained 12 chocolates. How many chocolates did Malachi sell?
3,276
Anna has 656 pictures. She can fit up to 8 photos on a page in her album. What is the least number of pages Anna will need to fit all of her pictures?
82
What is the name of the number to be divided by another number?
what is the dividend
Jessica is making 104 costumes for a school musical. Each costume needs 11 yards of fabric. Fabric is sold in bundles of 8 yards. How many bundles will Jessica need to buy?
104 X 11/8
15
Rhodes Stadium seats 4,075 fans. Death Valley stadium seats 20 times as many fans as Rhodes Stadium. How many fans can Death Valley hold?
81,500
A soccer league divides 176 registered players into 11 teams. How many players will be on each team?
16 players
What is the name of the new way we learned to do multiplication?
standard algorithm