Multiplicative Comparison
Jenny has 3 times as many stickers as Mark. Mark has 7 stickers. How many stickers does Jenny have?
21 stickers
Solve: 23×12=?
276
Solve: 84÷4=?
21
Maria bought 2 packs of crayons with 8 crayons in each pack and 3 erasers. How many items did she buy in total?
19 items (2×8=16, 16+3=19)
Write a multiplicative comparison sentence for: 18 is 6 times as many as 3.
18=6x3
A blue ribbon is 5 centimeters long. A red ribbon is 30 centimeters long. How many times longer is the red ribbon than the blue ribbon?
6 times longer
Solve: 45×31=?
1,395
Solve: 126÷3=?
42
John sold 15 lemonade cups for $2 each. He spent $8 on supplies. How much profit did he make?
$22 profit ($15 \times $2 = 30, $30 - $8 = 22)
Solve: 78×6=?
468
Sarah earned $12. Michael earned 4 times as much as Sarah. How much more money did Michael earn than Sarah?
$36 more ($12 x 4 = $48, $48 - $12 = $36)
Solve: 124×5=?
620
Solve: 575÷5=?
115
A baker made 36 cookies. He sold half of them in the morning. In the afternoon, he sold 10 more. How many cookies does he have left?
8 cookies (Morning sales: 36÷2=18, Cookies left after morning: 36−18=18, Cookies left after afternoon: 18−10=8)
252÷4=?
63
There are 8 apples in a small bag and 24 apples in a large bag. Write a multiplicative comparison sentence to describe the number of apples in the large bag compared to the small bag.
The large bag has 3 times as many apples as the small bag.
Solve: 306×23=?
7,038
Solve: 918÷6=?
153
There are 4 classes with 25 students in each class. If 12 students are absent today, how many students are present?
88 students (Total students: 4×25=100, Students present: 100−12=88)
Lisa has 5 fewer pencils than Tom. Tom has 3 times as many pencils as Sarah, who has 7 pencils. How many pencils does Lisa have?
16 pencils (Tom's pencils: 3×7=21, Lisa's pencils: 21−5=16)
If a sunflower grew to be 6 feet tall, and a nearby tree is 4 times as tall as the sunflower, how many feet shorter is the sunflower than the tree?
18 feet shorter (Tree height: 6 x 4 = 24 feet, Difference: 24 - 6 = 18 feet)
A school ordered 18 boxes of pencils. Each box contains 24 pencils. How many pencils did the school order in total?
432 pencils
There are 357 marbles to be shared equally among 7 friends. How many marbles will each friend receive?
51 marbles
A store has 5 shelves with 20 books on each shelf. They receive a shipment of 35 more books. If they want to put all the books equally onto 9 shelves, how many books will be on each shelf?
15 books (Initial books: 5×20=100, Total books: 100+35=135, Books per shelf: 135÷9=15)
A movie theater has 8 rows with 15 seats in each row. For one showing, 97 tickets were sold. How many empty seats were there?
23 empty seats (Total seats: 8×15=120, Empty seats: 120−97=23)