Problem Solving
At the local computer store, laptops come with eight units of memory installed. If all the laptops contain a total of 8,328 units of memory, how many laptops does the computer store have?
1,041
A rectangle has a length of 19 inches and a width of 15 inches. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
68 inches
There are 712 students from Rogers Elementary going on a field trip. The students will be placed into four equal groups. How many students will be in each group?
178
Hector puts a fence around his rectangular garden that is 14 feet long and 10 feet wide. How much fence does Hector use?
48 feet
andy buys a rectangular rug that is 92 centimeters long and 80 centimeters wide. What is the are of the rug?
7,360 square centimeters
Max rolled 672 feet of rope onto a spool. If there are 3 feet in a yard, how many yards of rope did Max roll?
224 yards
Lance filled a water cooler with 984 ounces of water to hand out to students at field day. If he is filling cups with 8 ounces of water at a time, how many cups can he hand out?
123 cups
A rectangle has a length of 25 feet and a width of 18 feet. What is the area of the rectangle?
450 feet
The sum of the angles of every triangle is 180 degrees. If a triangle has three congruent angles, what is the measure of each angle?
60 degrees
The leftovers in my division problem is called the...
remainder!
Solomon has 23 Hot Cheetos to share equally with his three friends. Solomon will eat any of the leftover Cheetos. How many Hot Cheetos will Solomon eat?
2 hot cheetos
Blake purchased 207 nails to build some birdhouses. Each birdhouse requires nine nails. How many birdhouses can Blake build if he uses all the nails he purchased?
23
A hotel purchased 2,312 pillows. If they put four pillows in each hotel room, how many rooms could the hotel supply with pillows?
578
We are going on a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch! At the Pumpkin Patch, we will go on a hayride. Three students can ride on each bale of hay. If there are 19 students in our class, how many bales of hay will we need for all the students?
7 bales
Bill and five friends decided to evenly split the cost of renting a boat for the week. The cost for renting the boat was $1,260. How much did each friend pay?
210
Sonny draws a picture on a sidewalk square that has a side length of 36 inches and an area of 1,296 square inches. What is the length of the other side?
36 inches
Deshawn brought cookies for the teachers. He has 15 cookies that he will share equally with the four 4th grade teachers. How many cookies will each teacher get?
3 cookies
Emily has 987 marbles that she wants to share equally among her 6 friends. How many will Emily have leftover?
Lam has 1,296 yards of ribbon. He wants to split the ribbon evenly among himself and two friends. Which expression below does NOT show a way to determine how much ribbon each will get?
1,296/2
There are 147 candies in a jar, and Sarah wants to distribute them equally to her 9 classmates. How many candies will each classmate get? How many will be leftover?
16 r 3
There are 1,245 pencils in a school supply store. The pencils will be divided evenly between 6 classes. How many pencils will each class get?
209 pencils
When I am stuck on a word problem the first thing I should do is...
Three Reads!
Lupe makes necklaces for her friends. She used 954 beads to make six identical necklaces. How many beads did each necklace have?
159
A toy store has 654 toy cars. They will split the cars equally into 8 boxes. How cars will be in each box? How many will be leftover?
81 r 7
When I need to know a multiplication fact I should use...
Multiplication Toolbox!