Word Problem Wizard

Determine which operation to use to solve this problem. 

Five students in Mrs. Williams’ class turned in box tops. Each of their bags had 37 box tops in them. How many  box tops were turned in by Mrs. Williams' students in all?

• division 9.4 box tops
• multiplication, 185 box tops
• multiplication, 42 box tops
• division, 7.4 box tops

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Chloe is making friendship bracelets. Each bracelet is made with 98 centimeters of string. How much string will Chloe need to make bracelets for 5 of her friends?

• division, 19.6 centimeters of string
• multiplication, 103 centimeters of string
• division, 93 centimeters of string
• multiplication, 490 centimeters of string

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Hunter has 135 baseball cards. He wants to sort them evenly into 3 boxes. How many magazines will go in each box?

• division, 45 baseball cards
• multiplication, 405 baseball cards
• division, 67.5 baseball cards
• multiplication, 270 baseball cards

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Mr. Ben and Mr. Patrick are setting up chairs for a school assembly. They need to set up 15 rows and they need 10 chairs in each row.  How many chairs will they put out?

• division, 10 chairs
• multiplication, 150 chairs
• division, 5 chairs
• multiplication, 25 chairs

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Hannah has 7 Shopkins in her collection. Chloe has 5 times as many Shopkins as Hannah does. How many Shopkins does Chloe have?

• division, 30 Shopkins
• multiplication, 12 Shopkins
• divison, 2 Shopkins
• multiplication, 35 Shopkins

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Mrs. Lewis had thirty six photos to put in her photo album. If each page holds six photos, how many full pages will she have?

• division, 12 pages
• multiplication, 216 pages
• division, 6 pages
• multiplication, 42 pages

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Molly has to sell seven hundred fifty nine chocolate bars to win a prize. If each box contains 5 chocolate bars, how many boxes will he need to sell to win the trip?

• division, 151. 8 boxes
• multiplication, 3,795 boxes
• multiplication, 764 boxes
• division, 379.5 boxes

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Carson has three hundred seventy-five songs on his iPod. If he wants to create 15 playlists with the same number of songs on each playlist, how many songs should he put on each playlist?

• division, 25 songs
• multiplication, 5,625 songs
• division, 150 songs
• multiplication, 390 songs

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Mrs. Hudson was given 17 vases of flowers. Each vase had 13 flowers in it. How many flowers did Mrs. Hudson have?

• division, 4 flowers 
• multiplication, 21 flowers
• multiplication, 221 flowers
• divison, 9 flowers

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There are four hundred fifty students going on the 5th grade field trip. If each bus can hold  50 students, how many buses does the school need to take on the field trip?

• division, 9 buses
• multiplication, 2,250 buses
• division, 50 buses
• multiplication, 500 buses