Mystery Word Problems
Pete Maverick is making cookies for all of his friends. He has has 324 friends and wants to give each of them 12 cookies. How many cookies does Pete need to make?
3,888 cookies
Dwayne the Rock Johnson has 324 rocks and wants to give an equal amount of rocks to each of his 9 friends. How many rocks does each friend get? Are there any extra rocks?
Each friend gets 36 rocks
Rowey is making some juice from fresh oranges. He he used 4 oranges per glass of juice and make 34 glasses of juice. How many oranges did he use?
He used 136 oranges
84 / 4 =
21
45 x 9 =
405
SpongeBob went to the store 28 times last month. He buys 18 candies every time he goes to the store. How many candies did he buy this month?
504 candies
Susie's mom prepared 74 carrot sticks for breakfast. If the carrots were served equally to 12 people, how many carrot sticks were left uneaten?
There were 2 carrot sticks left uneaten.
Write and solve your own multiplying or dividing problem.
(answers vary)
492/ 6 =
82
88 x 64 =
5,632
John Cena's boat has 567 cabins and there are 11 beds in each cabin. How many beds are on the entire ship?
There are 6,237 beds
Miley collected all 94 trading cards scattered in his room and placed them in boxes. If a full box can hold a maximum of 8 cards, how many boxes were filled and how many cards are there in the unfilled box?
There were 11 boxes filled and an unfilled box that contains 6 cards.
Marshmallow read about the solar system. He read 16 pages a day of a book which has 544 pages. How many days did it take Allen to finish reading the book?
It took 34 days to finish reading the book
4,367 / 3
1,455 R2
87 x 962 =
83,694
There are 1,089 passengers on Maggie's plane. There is enough bags of pretzels on the plane for each passenger to have 34 bags of pretzels. How many bags of pretzels are on the plane?
37,026 bags of preztzels
Sally brewed enough lemon tea to fill 2,457 cups. If she serves this to her parents and three siblings and they share this equally, how many cups will each have?
They must be thirsty because they will each have 491.4 cups of lemon tea
Ben's mother collected all family pictures and wanted to place all of them in an album. If an album can contain 20 pictures, how many albums will she need if there are 480 pictures?
She will need 24 albums
8,765 / 4 =
2,191 R1
123 x 456 =
56,088
Picasso is making a new painting on a canvas that has a length of 58cm and a width of 139cm. What is the surface area of the canvas?
8,062cm2
Martha and her sister gathered all 98 of their teddy bears and placed them on the shelves in their bedroom. If every shelf is 4 feet wide and can carry a maximum of 7 teddy bears, how many shelves will be filled?
14 shelves will be filled
____ got a new pet fish is is trying to figure out how much water to put in the fish tank. The tank has a width of 17cm, a width of 5cm, and a height of 22cm. What is the area of the tank?
1,870cm3
216 / 7 =
30 R6
4502 x 173 =
778,846