Word Problems
A school ordered 4 boxes of pencils. Each box contains 36 pencils. How many pencils did the school order?
36 x 4 = 144
The school ordered 144 pencils.
When we measure volume we need three measurements. What are they?
Length, Width, Height
32 x 12 = ?
384
A school ordered 28 boxes of pencils. Each box contained 145 pencils. The school gave 875 pencils to the fifth-grade classes. How many pencils were left for the other grade levels? Use standard algorithm. Show your work.
145 x 28 = 4,060
4,060 - 875 = 3,185
There are 3,185 pencils left for the other grade levels.
A concert hall has 28 rows with 36 seats in each row. How many seats are in the concert hall?
36 x 28 = 1,008
There are 1,008 seats in the concert hall.
Marc uses unit cubes to build a rectangular prism. What is the volume of the prism?
16 cubic units
56 x 38 =
2,128
A farmer packed 366 oranges into each of 34 crates.How many oranges are there in all?
366 x 34 = 12,444
The farmer has 12,444 oranges in all.
Andrew uses unit cubes to build a rectangular prism. What is the volume of the prism?
24 cubic units
432 x 76 = ?
32,832
A stadium hosts 21 sold-out concerts during a summer tour. Each concert seats 6,543 fans. How many fans went to a concert in all.
6,543 x 21 = 137403
What are the two ways we have used to find the volume of a rectangular prism? Give one reason why someone would choose to use one or the other.
repeated addition
multiplication
1,354 x 27 =
26,558