Factors
Word Problems
Vocabulary
Division
Name the Number
100
The factors of 17 are these numbers.
What are 1 and 17?
100
There were some rabbits in a pen. Altogether I counted 56 feet. How many rabbits were in the pen?
What is 14 rabbits?
100
A number that has only 2 factors, 1 and itself. The numbers 2, 3, and 5 are some examples.
What is a prime number? Give your definition.
100
This many remainders is possible when the dividend is 12.
What is 12?
100
This is the smallest 2-digit prime number.
What is 11?
200
28 has this many factors.
What is 6?
200
How many cars are needed to take 46 Girl Scouts to the community center after school if each car holds six Girl Scouts in addition to the driver?
What is 8 cars?
200
This number is a composite number, even number square number, multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 36 and is a factor of 36 and 72.
How would you describe the number 36?
200
This multiplication problem can be used to solve 42/6.
What is 7 x 6 = 42?
200
This number is divisible by 10. Then tens digit is equal to the number of legs on an insect.
What is 60?
300
This is a number that has only 3 factors.
What is any number that is a square and a prime number, such as 4, 9, 25, 49, 81, etc.
300
Pens cost $1.29 each. Use mental math to figure out how much it will cost to buy five pens. Explain.
What is $6.45? Good explanation of how you got $6.45 is shared. The correct answer was also given.
300
All of these words describe the answer as a result of an operation: multiplication, addition, division, and subtraction.
What do the words product, sum, quotient, and difference have in common?
300
The quotient is 13, the divisor is 6 and the remainder is 3. This number is the dividend.
What is 81?
300
This number is odd, prime, and is the product of the digits is 15.
What is 53?
400
Name all the factors of 39.
What is 1, 3, 13, and 39?
400
Diego has been collecting recycled cans for a charity drive. Each can is worth 5 cents. Diego has raised $2.35. How many more cans does he need to collect in order to have a donation of $5.00?
What is 53 cans?
400
The _____is the number in a division problem that divides into another number, known as the ______.
What are the divisor and dividend?
400
Jon said that 23/0=0 but Carla disagreed and said there is no answer. This person is correct. Explain.
What is Carla? She is right because the multiplication sentence that relates to this division problem is 0 x 0 = 23, which is false. No answer is possible, which means that the problem is undefined.
400
This number is composite. The digits add up to 12. One of the factors is 13.
What is 39?
500
Name the greatest common factor of 18 and 24.
What is 6?
500
If hot dogs come in packages of 8 and buns come in packages of twelve, what is the minimum number of hot dogs and bun packages needed so every bun has one hot dog?
3 packages of hotdogs and 2 packages of buns
500
A _____ is a number that is the product of a given number and a whole number and a ____ is a number that divides exactly into a given whole number. Fill in the blanks with the correct term.
What are a multiple and factor? Must be in that order.
500
Make up a word problem with a quotient of 3 and 1/2.
Answers will vary. Example. Ms. Baker has 7 brownies. She wants to share them with herself and Mrs. J. How many brownies will each person get? 3 1/2
500
The digits sum to 9. It is odd and this number is a square number.
What is 81?