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Lia bought 3.75 pounds of oranges. If oranges cost $2.99 per pound, how much did she spend?
$2.99 REPEATS 3.75 TIMES
MULTIPLY (x)
$11.21
A carpenter bought a piece of wood that was 1.26 meters long. He cut it into 3 equal pieces. How long was each piece?
TOTAL is 1.26 m and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 3 EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
0.42 meters
A bag of strawberry candy takes 2.88 ounces of strawberries to make. If you have 3.85 bags, how many ounces of strawberries did it take to make them?
MULTIPLY (x)
2.88 REPEATS 3.85 TIMES
11.088 ounces
If there are 60 minutes in an hour, how many hours is 156.61 seconds?
TOTAL is 156.61 seconds and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 60 EQUAL GROUPS: Think How many 60s are in 156.61
DIVIDE
2.61 hours
Ying walked 7.4 kilometers every day, Monday - Friday. How many kilometers did he walk each week?
7.4 REPEATS 7.4 TIMES
MULTIPLY(x)
37 kilometers
37 km
Jackson bought 4 metal balls. Altogether, the balls weighed 1.60 pounds. How much, on average, did each ball weigh?
TOTAL is 1.6 pounds and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 4 EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
0.40 pounds per ball or
0.4 pounds
Gabby weighed 10 red balls and 8 green metal balls during a science class. The red ball weighed 0.02 pounds and the green ball weighed 0.89 pounds. If Gabby places all of the balls on the scale at the same time, what will the scale read?
MULTIPLY(x)
10 x 0.02 =0.2 pounds
8 x 0.89 =7.12 pounds
ADD (+)
0.2 + 7.12 = 7.32 pounds
7.32 pounds for all of the balls
A country road was 4.8 miles long. If 0.6 of it was paved with cement how long was the paved part?
0.6 OF 4.8
MULTIPLY (x)
2.88 miles
A factory used 358.93 kilograms of tomatoes to make 4 batches of pasta sauce. What quantity of tomatoes did the factory put in each batch?
TOTAL is 358.93 and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
89.7325 tomatoes
Janet can read 2.6 pages of a book in a minute. If she read for 2.6 minutes, how many pages would she have read?
MULTIPLY (x)
2.6 is REPEATED 2.6 TIMES
6.76 pages
Maggie had a stack of 300 papers. The stack was 1.47 inches high. What was the height of each paper?
TOTAL stack is 1.47 inches high and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 300 EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
0.0049 inches for each sheet
It snowed 0.49 inches each day for 4 days. At the end of the 4 days, what was the total snowfall?
0.49 REPEATS 4 TIMES
MULTIPLY (x)
1.96 inches of snow
During a science experiment, Mary had a beaker with 40.87 milliliters of a blue liquid. She poured the same amount into each of 5 beakers. How much did she pour into each beaker?
TOTAL is 40.87 and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 5 EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
8.174 milliliters
8.174 ml
A land developer is splitting up 88.9 hectares of land to form 5 identical properties. What size will each property be?
TOTAL is 88.9 and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 5 EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
17.78 hectares
Sarah was measuring how much taller she got over two years. In the first year she grew 5.2 cm. In the second year she grew 8.4 cm. What was her average growth for the two years?
ADD (+)
5.2 + 8.4 =13.6 cm
DIVIDE
13.6 / 2 = 6.8 cm per year
6.8 cm was her average growth per year
A box of pencils weighed 2.7 grams. If a principal ordered 4 boxes, how much would they weigh?
MULTIPLY (x)
2.7 is REPEATED 4 TIMES
10.8 grams
Neha and her classmates placed colored blocks on a scale during a science lab. There were 17 identical purple blocks on the scale for a total weight of 15.3 pounds. How much did each purple block weigh?
TOTAL is 15.3 pounds and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 17 EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
0.9 pounds each
Tom walked 4.72 kilometers during the four days he was at the fair. What was his average distance each day?
TOTAL is 4.72 km and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 4 EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
1.18 kilometers
An old wooden post was 2.8 meters long. If you were to cut off 0.2 of it, how much would you have cut off?
MUTLIPLY (X)
0.2 OF 2.8 (# Of a # means Multiply)
0.56 meters
Over the past few years, Sebastian has made 9 trips to visit the amusement park. He drove 954.18 kilometers in all. How far did Sebastian drive on each trip?
TOTAL is 954.18 and you are BREAKING IT DOWN INTO 9 EQUAL GROUPS:
DIVIDE
106.02 kilometers