What To Do?
Multiply or Divide?
How Would I Solve?
100

Daniel purchased a 6-pound bag of dog food for his dog. His dog eats 1/3 pound of food per day. How many days will the bag of food last?

What is division?

18 days

100

Jersey Mikes made 5 sandwich trays for a party. The party guests ate 7/8 of the sandwiches. How many sandwich trays were eaten?

What is multiplication?

4 and 3/8 sandwich trays

100

Mrs. Harris bought 4 boxes of markers. She gave 1/3 of a box to each of her groups. How many groups can she give markers to?

What is division?

12 groups

200

Abryell has 3 containers of water. They each hold 4/5 pints of water. How many total pints of water does she have?

What is multiplication?

2 and 2/5 pints of water

200

Georgia used 2 cups of sprinkles to decorate cookies. If she used 1/9 cup of sprinkles for each cookie, how many cookies did she decorate?

What is division?

18 cookies

200

There are 12 tables in the cafeteria. Three-fifths of the tables are full. How many tables are full?

What is multiplication?

7 and 1/5

300

How many 1/5 cup servings of raisins are in 4 cups of raisins?

What is division?

20 servings

300

Karis bought a 2 pound bag of almonds. After a month, she had eaten 2/5 of the bag. How many pounds of almonds had she eaten?

What is multiplication?

4/5 pounds of almonds

300

There was 5 pies left after Thanksgiving. Elijah ate 1/3 of the leftover pie. How many pies did Elijah eat?

What is multiplication?

1 and 2/3 pies

400

Addison is making 12 batches of pancakes for her family. Each batch needs 1/5 cup of milk. How much milk will Addison need altogether?

What is multiplication?

2 and 2/5 cups of milk

400

Luke has 10 ft of ribbon. He wants to cut the ribbon into 1/2 ft pieces. How many pieces of ribbon can Luke cut?

What is division?

20 pieces of ribbon

400

Mrs. Battershell is making croissants. She has 18 pounds of dough. Each croissant is made from 1/8 pounds of dough. How many croissants can she make?

What is division?

144 croissants

500

Yves drew one picture every one-fourth of an hour.  If she drew for five hours, how many pictures did she draw?

What is division?

20 pictures.

500

Lawson ate a piece of candy every one-fifth of an hour.  If he ate candy for two hours, how many pieces did he eat?

What is division?

10 pieces of candy

500

Trevor combined 1/2 cup of water and .25 cups of lemonade powder to make lemonade.  If he poured 1/4 cups of lemonade for his family, how many glasses did he pour?

What is addition and then division?

3 cups