Multiply or Divide

An amusement park developed a program for local fifth-grade students to study the relationship between angles and forces and motion of roller coasters. The park created the program to serve up to 4,050 students. The park has confirmed 185 students from 14 schools will attend the program. How many more students can be invited to participate in the program? Which operation should be used to solve this problem?

• Multiplication

• Division

• Multiplication and Addition

• Multiplication and Subtraction

A new school received a shipment of library books. The shipment included 198 boxes with 34 books in each box. How many books were received for the new library? Which operation should be used to solve the problem?

• Multiplication

• Division

Josiah has 274 cards in his collection book.

The last page in his collection book has 4 cards. The other pages in Josiah’s book are full. Each full page has 6 cards.

If P is the number of full pages in Josiah’s book, which expression could be used to find the number of full pages?

• 274 ÷ 6 + 4

• (274 – 4) ÷ 6

• 274 ÷ (6 + 4)

• 274 – (4 x 6)

A movie theater has 192 seats. There are 16 rows of seats. If each row has the same number of seats, how many seats are in each row? Which operation should be used to solve this problem?

• Multiplication

• Division

Lola sells jewelry. She sold 6 necklaces.

She sells each necklace for $9. She spent $14 on supplies to make the necklaces. Which operation or operations should be used to solve the problem?

• Multiplication

• Multiplication and Subtraction

• Multiplication and Addition

• Multiplication and Division

A fifth-grade class received a large donation of pencils at the beginning of the school year. The school received 63 packs of 15 pencils. There are 27 students in the class. If each student uses the same number of donated pencils during the school year, how many pencils will each student use? Which operation or operations should be used to solve the problem?

• Multiplication

• Division

• Additon

• Multiplication and Division

A babysitter earns $165 each day for keeping several children. If she babysat the children for 23 days in October, how much money did she earn? Which operation should be used to solve this problem?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

A palace ballroom has an area of 10,000 square feet. The floor will be covered with decorative 1-foot square tiles. 6 crates with 1,268 tiles each have been ordered. How many more tiles need to be ordered to cover the entire floor? What operations should be used to solve this problem?

• Addition and Subtraction

• Multiplication and Addition

• Multiplication and Subtraction

• Multiplication and Division

The teachers arranged the chairs for the fall festival. There were 402 chairs. The first row had 18 chairs. All of the other rows had 24 chairs in each row. How many rows were set up?

What operations should be used to solve this problem?

• Subtraction and Division

• Subtraction and Multiplication

• Addition and Multiplication

• Multiplication and Division

Marcus and James both have a collection of sports cards with famous athletes from around the world.

James has 42 pages with 24 sports cards on each page. James has 7 times as many cards as Marcus.

How many cards does Marcus have?

What operation should be used to solve the problem?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication and Division

• Division