Division
Multiplication and Division Word Problems
Finding Volumes of Prisms Using Unit Cubes
Using Formulas to Find Volume of a Prism
Mixed Bag
100
Solve.
1,170 ÷ 26
What is 45?
100
Solve.
634 x 25
What is 15,850?
100
The layers of a rectangular prism are shown to the right of the prism.
What is the volume, in cubic centimeters, of the rectangular prism?
What is 36 cubic cm?
100
The area of the base of a rectangular prism is 16 cm2 and the height is 7 cm.
Enter the volume, in cubic centimeters, of this prism.
What is 112 cm3?
100
A grocery store has 184 shelves for bottled goods. Each shelf can hold 27 bottles. How many bottles can the shelves hold in all?
What is 4,968 bottles?
200
Solve.
96 ÷ 18
What is 5 R 6?
200
Sydney and her 2 friends competed as a team in a math competition.
Each person on the team scored the same number of points.
The team scored a total of 777 points.
How many points did each person score?
What is 259 points?
200
Sandra is building a rectangular prism. The base of the prism measures 3 cubes by 3 cubes by 1 cube as shown.
She builds the rectangular prism with 3 layers. What is the volume, in cubic centimeters, of the completed prism?
What is 27 cubic centimeters?
200
Great Cereal company packages their cereal in boxes that are 8 inches long, 3 inches wide, and 10 inches tall.
Part A: How many cubic inches of cereal could the box hold?
Part B: Which of the following could hold the same amount of cereal?
A. 6 in x 8 in x 5 in
B. 5 in x 7 in x 6 in
C. 6 in x 6 in x 20 in
D. 4 in x 6 in x 5 in
What is
Part A: 240 cubic inches?
Part B: A. 6 in x 8 in x 5 in
200
Noriko packs unit cubes into a prism.
What is the volume of the prism?
What is 80 cubic units?
300
An expression is given.
925 ÷ 50
Part A: Identify the equivalent quotient.
A. 18
B. 19 R 25
C. 18 R 25
D. 20
Part B: Use numbers and/or words to describe the strategy used to find the answer.
.
What is
Part A: C. 18 R 25
Part B: Answers will vary.
300
Two students bake 394 cookies for the choir bake sale. They put them into boxes that hold 12 cookies.
Part A: What is the minimum number of boxes needed to put all the cookies in a box?
Part B: How many cookies will be in the box that is not filled?
What are
Part A: 33 boxes
Part B: 10 cookies
300
The rectangular prism given is a solid.
Enter an equation that can be used to calculate the volume of the rectangular prism in cubic centimeters.
What is 5 x 5 x 4 = 100 cm3.
300
Steven wants to pack as many 1 cubic foot boxes into large shipping containers. He can choose from Container A and Container B.
If Steven wants to pack the greatest number of boxes, which container should he choose?
Explain your answer below.
What is Container A because the volume of Container A is 30 cubic feet and can hold 30 boxes while Container B has a volume of 24 cubic feet and can only hold 24 boxes?
300
Justin has a crate that is 8 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 3 feet tall. Decide whether each of the crate sizes described below has the same volume as Justin’s crate.
Choose Yes or No for each crate size.
A. 9 feet long, 1 foot wide, 4 feet tall Yes No
B. 8 feet long, 2 feet wide, 2 feet tall Yes No
C. 4 feet long, 4 feet wide, 3 feet tall Yes No
D. 8 feet long, 3 feet wide, 3 feet tall Yes No
E. 6 feet long, 2 feet wide, 4 feet tall Yes No
What is
A. No
B. No
C. Yes
D. No
E. Yes
400
Solve.
4,899 ÷ 24
What is 204 R 3?
400
Teachers create groups for a field trip.
128 students attend the field trip.
Groups may have no less than 5 and no more than 7 students.
What is the greatest number of groups the teachers can create?
A. 18
B. 19
C. 25
D. 26
What is C. 25?
400
Matt packed a box full of 1 cubic centimeter blocks as given below.
What is the volume of the box, in cubic centimeters?
A. 200 cu cm
B. 175 cu cm
C. 105 cu cm
D. 160 cu cm
What is A. 200 cu cm?
400
An aquarium has a volume of 1,000 cubic feet. The area of the base is 40 ft2. The height is unknown.
What is the value of h, the height of the aquarium?
What is 25 feet?
400
A soccer organization is going to spend $2,990 to purchase all sweatshirts or all jackets for its players. Sweatshirts cost $26 each. Jackets cost $46 each.
What is the greatest number of sweatshirts or jackets that the organization can purchase?
What is 115 sweatshirts or 65 jackets?
500
An expression is given.
7,304 ÷ 41
Part A: Solve. Enter the quotient below.
⬜R ⬜
Part B: Use numbers and/or words to describe the strategy used to find the answer.
What is
Part A: 178 R 6
Part B: Students may demonstrate how they calculated the quotient using any grade-appropriate strategy (i.e. partial quotients, a traditional algorithm) or use words to explain their strategy.
500
Jack bought 2 umbrellas and 3 hats.
He spent between $30 and $50.
Each umbrella costs the same amount.
Each hat costs $4.00.
Part A: What is the least amount Jack could have spent on an umbrella?
Part B: What is the most Jack could have spent on an umbrella?
What is
Part A: $9 for one umbrella
Part B: $19 for one umbrella
500
The right rectangular prism is built using 1-inch cubes.
Which TWO expressions can be used to find the volume, in cubic inches, of the right rectangular prism?
A. 18 + 6
B. 18 x 6
C. 6 x 6 x 3
D. 6 + 6 + 3
E. 6 x 3 + 6 x 6
What is
B. 18 x 6
C. 6 x 6 x 3
500
A flute case is shaped like a rectangular prism. The case is 5 inches tall, 3 inches wide, and has a volume of 255 cubic inches. What is the length of the flute case?
A. 15 inches
B. 17 inches
C. 51 inches
D. 240 inches
What is B. 17 inches?
500
What is 5,963 ÷ 37?
A. 116 R6
B. 161
C. 161 R4
D. 161 R6
What is D. 161 R6?