Multi Step Multiplication Word Problems

​Multi Step Multiplication

By Emma Johnson

Sometimes, a problem will not give you one of its factors right away, you'll need to solve to find the first factor!

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Elise earns $17 an hour. She works for 7 hours each day. How much will she earn if she works for 5 days?

STEP 1: Find out how much Elise earns in one day.

$17 an hour X 7 hours a day =

STEP 1: Find out how much Elise earns in one day.

$17 an hour X 7 hours a day =

$119

STEP 1: Find out how much Elise earns in 5 days

$119 a day X 5 days =

STEP 1: Find out how much Elise earns in 5 days

$119 a day X 5 days =

$595

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A bakery sold 36 boxes of chocolate chip cookies and 25 boxes of oatmeal cookies. Each box had 18 cookies. How many cookies did the bakery sell?

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A school gave a box of pencils to each student in the 4th grade. If each box had 24 pencils, how many pencils did the school give to 4th graders in all?

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Ms. Johnson has $180 to buy baking supplies. She buys 8 containers of butter and 6 bags of sugar.

Each container of butter costs $10 and each bag of sugar costs $15. How much money does Ms. Johnson have left over after buying these supplies?

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The bakery sells many cakes over the weekend. The table shows the number of cakes they sold. If each cake cost $14, how much money did the bakery earn selling cakes?

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A restaurant owner ordered apples to make pies.

She ordered 16 bags of green apples and 23 bags of red apples.

Each bag had 36 apples in it. How many apples total did the restaurant owner order?