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Twenty-one students shared a box of 84 crayons evenly. How many crayons does each student get?
Answer: 4 crayons each
84 ÷ 21 = 4 crayons each, 0 left over.
It was 68°F in the morning and 49°F by evening.
Which statement describes how the temperature changed?
A. 17°F
B. 19°F
C. 21°F
Answer: ✅ (B. 19°F)
68 − 49 = 19°F decrease.
Jackson has 120 trading cards. He wants to store them in binders that hold 9 cards each.
How many binders will he need?
A. 12
B. 13
C. 14
Answer: 14
120 ÷ 9 = 13.33 → We can't just squeeze that card in there!!
What does a dozen mean?
What about half a dozen?
Dozen= 12
Half Dozen= 6
Twenty students shared a box of 109 crayons evenly. How many crayons are left over?
Answer: 9 crayons
109- 100= 9
A bakery has 250 dozen muffins. How many muffins are at the bakery?
Answer: 3,000 muffins.
250 × 12
A school cookout hosted 80 students and 20 teachers. Each teacher ate 2 hot dogs, and each student ate 1 hot dog. Much many hotdogs were eaten in total?
Answer: 120 hot dogs.
(80 × 1)= 80
(20 × 2) = 40
80 + 40 = 120 hot dogs.
Mrs. Lopez travels often for her job. What is the total number of miles she traveled over the 5 months?
January 1,125
February 980
March. 1,050
April 895
May 1,320
Answer: 5,370 miles.
1,125 + 980 + 1,050 + 895 + 1,320 =
At Maple Grove Middle School, there were 36 seventh graders. During gym class, each student had to stretch for 120 seconds.
What method can you use to find out the total number of seconds all the seventh graders stretched combined?
A. 30 + 6 × 120
B. 30 × 120 + 6 × 120
C. 6 + 30 × 120
B. 30 × 120 + 6 × 120 ✅ (Correct Answer)
Explanation: Use multiplication or order of operations to find total seconds
(36 × 120 = 4,320).
A toy factory produces 4,800 robot figures every hour. They’re packed in boxes holding 16 figures each. How many boxes do I need for 1 hour?
Answer: 300 boxes
4,800 ÷ 16 = 300 boxes.
Liam baked 8 batches of cupcakes with 10 cupcakes each. He packs them into boxes that hold 12 cupcakes each. How many boxes does he need?
Answer: 7 boxes.
8 × 10 = 80 cupcakes
80 ÷ 12 = 6.66 → needs 7 boxes.
I have 24 boxes of cupcakes with 9 cupcakes each and
36 trays of brownies with 12 pieces each. How many more brownies do I have?
Answer: 216
Cupcakes: 24 × 9 = 216 pieces
Brownies: 36 × 12 = 432 pieces
Mr. Davis bought 6 pairs of shoes for $390.
What is a reasonable range for the average price per pair?
A. $55–$60
B. $60–$70
C. $70–$80
Answer: B $60–$70
390 ÷ 6 = $65
Sofia’s garden has 18 sections with the same number of flowers in each section. If there are 1,260 flowers in total, how many flowers are in each section?
A. 70
B. 75
C. 80
Answer: A. 70
1,260 ÷ 18 = 70
Ara read 72 pages during spring break. Bob read 9 times the number of pages Ara read.
How many more pages did Bob read than Ara?
Answer: 576 more pages.
72 × 9 = 648
648 − 72 =
The gas tank in Mr. Green’s car holds 18 gallons of gas. If the car averages 30 miles per gallon, how many miles will it travel on 4 tanks?
Answer: 2,160 miles.
18 × 30=540
540 x 4 = 2,160
Ella and Mason’s families each grow sunflowers in their gardens.
Ella’s family planted 14 rows of sunflowers with 36 plants in each row.
Mason’s family planted 10 rows of sunflowers with 48 plants in each row.
How many more sunflowers did Mason’s family plant than Ella’s?
Answer: 24 more sunflowers planted by Ella’s family.
Ella’s = 14 × 36 = 504
Mason’s = 10 × 48 = 480
504 − 480 = 24 more sunflowers planted by Ella’s family.
Mrs. Johnson bought 9 backpacks for a total of $540.00.
What is a reasonable range for the average price per backpack?
A. $50–$55
B. $55–$65
C. $65–$75
Answer: $55–$65 range.
$540 ÷ 9 = $60 per backpack,
which fits best in the $55–$65 range.
A toy factory produces 4,800 robot figures every hour. They’re packed in boxes holding 16 figures each. How many boxes do I need for 4 hour?
Answer: 1200 Boxes
4,800 ÷ 16 = 300 boxes.
300 x 4 hours= 1200 boxes
Harper and Noah’s families each have apple orchards.
Harper’s family planted 18 fields with 28 trees each.
Noah’s family planted 12 fields with 42 trees each.
How many more trees did Noah’s family plant than Harper’s?
Answer:
Harper = 18 × 28 = 504;
Noah = 12 × 42 = 504
504 → 0 more trees (They planted the same number.)