Reige's Orange Multiplication/ Division Word Problems.

Multiplication Word Problems

1. Ellen went to a garage sale to buy chairs. Each chair cost 15 dollars. How much money did Ellen spend for the 12 chairs she bought?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 15 x 10=150 15 x 2= 30 150 + 30 = 180

2. Three-toed sloths have four legs. How many toes would 25 sloths have?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 25 x 4= 50 x 2= 100

3. Albert has two snakes. The garden snake is 10 inches long. The boa constrictor is 7 times longer than the garden snake. How long is the boa constrictor?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 7 x 10= 10 x 10=100-(10 x 3)=30-100=70

4. Albert’s cabbage patch has 12 rows of cabbage. In each row, there are 15 heads of cabbage. How many heads of cabbage does Albert have in all?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 12 x 15= 6 x 30=180 6 x 3=18

5. Marie can bike at a speed of 12 miles an hour. How far can she bike in 31 hours?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 31 x 12= 30 x 10 =300 -(1x2)=2-300=298

Division Word Problems

1. You have 24 cookies and want to share them equally with 6 people. How many cookies would each person get?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 6 ÷ 24= 12 ÷ 12=144

2. You are reading a book with 120 pages. If you want to read the same number of pages each night, how many would you have to read each night to finish in 10 days?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 120 ÷ 10=12 12 x 10=120

3. A cereal box holds 18 cups of cereal. Each serving is 2 cups. How many servings are in the whole box?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 18 ÷ 2= 9  8 ÷ 2= 4 10 ÷ 2= 5 5 + 4 = 9

4. A box of books weighs 42 pounds. Each book weighs 3 pounds. How many books are there in the box?

Answer - Show your Workings Out.  42 ÷ 3= 30 ÷ 3 =30 -(12 ÷ 3)= 4 - 30=26

5. Sue’s mother made 75 cookies. She put the cookies in bags, with 3 cookies in each bag. How many bags could she fill up?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 75 ÷ 3=25