Word Problems
A school buys 24 boxes of pencils. Each box has 12 pencils.
How many pencils does the school buy altogether?
288 pencils
Solve each:
24 × 10²
35 × 10³
2,400
35,000
Solve using an area model:
28 x 26
728
What is the missing value?
236
x 14
944
2?60
3304
3
Solve:
583 x 100
49 x 1000
58,300
49,000
A bakery makes 36 trays of cookies. Each tray has 25 cookies.
How many cookies does the bakery make in all?
900 cookies
Solve each:
126 × 10²
243 × 10³
12,600
234,000
Solve using an area model:
300 x 35
10,500
What is the missing value?
124
x 13
372
1?40
1612
2
A school orders 236 boxes of pencils. Each box contains 18 pencils. How many pencils does the school receive?
4,248 pencils
A teacher orders 115 packs of stickers. Each pack contains 32 stickers.
How many stickers does the teacher order altogether?
3680 stickers
Solve each:
326 × 10¹
735 × 10⁴
905 × 10⁰
3,260
7,350,000
905
Solve using an area model:
204 x 14
2,856
What is the missing value?
326
x 17
2282
3?60
5542
2
Mrs. Jones found these problems on her calculator:
14 x 10
372 x 10
54 x 10
Based on the pattern, what would the product of 70 and 10
700
A theater has 589 seats in each section. There are 32 sections.
How many seats are there in the theater?
18,848 seats
Write the following as an exponential equation:
405,000
3,280
48
405 x 10³
328 x 10¹
48 x 10⁰
Find the mistake in Mrs. Jones's work:
(394 x 56)
300 90 4
50 15000 4500 20
6 1800 540 24
4 x 50 is not 20
4 x 50 = 200
What is the missing value?
438
x 26
2?28
8760
11388
6
A scientist has 10 boxes. Each box contains 10 trays. Each tray holds 10 containers, and each container has 10 samples. How would you write this as an exponent?
104
A school fundraiser sells 245 tickets for $18 each.
How much money does the fundraiser collect if all the tickets are sold?
$4,410
Mrs. Jones found these problems on her calculator:
42 x 1000
306 x 1000
5 x 1000
Based on the pattern, what would the product of 16 and 1000
16,000
Find the mistake in Mrs. Jones's work:
(428 x 32)
400 20 8
30 12000 600 240
2 800 400 16
2 x 20 is not 400
the answer should be 40
Find the mistake in Mrs. Jones's work:
315
x 27
2205
6300
9505
it should be 8,505 because 6+2 is 8. it is not 9
A warehouse has 8 shelves. Each shelf has 10 boxes. Each box contains 10 packages, and each package contains 10 items.
How could I write this as an equation with exponents?
8 x 103 = 8000