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

Damon 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

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

100

Mrs. Taylor 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

200

Colleen 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

200

Adelle 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

200

There are 12 tables in the cafeteria. 3/5 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

300

Ziqi 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

300

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

What is multiplication?

1 and 2/3

400

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

What is multiplication?

2 and 2/5

400

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

What is division?

20

400

Mrs. Ord 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