Division or Multiplication Word Problems

Hilo has 63 baseball cards to put into a photo album. There are 9 cards on each page. What operation do you need to use to find how many pages of baseball cards Hilo has?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

Brandon has 5 boxes of chocolates. Each box holds 6 pieces of chocolate. What operation do you need to use to find how many pieces of chocolate Brandon has total?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

Imani is taking apart a beaded necklace to make 4 identical bracelets. The necklace has 48 beads. How many beads will Imani use for each bracelet?

• 12 beads

• 42 beads

• 52 beads

• 8 beads

Nondi’s class is going on a field trip. Each chaperone will take 4 kids in their car. If there are 36 students going, how many chaperones will they need?

• 9 chaperones

• 32 chaperones

• 40 chaperones

• 6 chaperones

Mrs. Phillips bought 3 packs of pencils. Each box contained 9 pencils. How many pencils did she buy? 

• 18

• 30

• 27

• 36

Each pack of pencils contains 8 pencils. Sara bough 3 packs and divided them equally among 6 people. How many pencils did each person get? 

• 24

• 4

• 17

• 5

Adrian started a dog walking business. On Saturday he walked 8 dogs and earned $72. What operation do you need to use to find how much he charged per dog?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

Tamika collects stamps. She has a 8 page book that holds 5 stamps per page. What operation do you need to use to determine how many stamps Tamika has collected?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

Sami, Joeli, Angel, and Eli bought 88 green slimy candy bars. They wanted to divide the candy evenly. How many candy bars would each kid get, and how many would be left over?

• Each kid would get 22 green slimy candy bars and none would be left over.

• Each kid would get 352 green slimy candy bars and none would be left over.

• Each kid would get 2 green slimy candy bars and 8  would be left over.

• Each kid would get 20 green slimy candy bars and 2 would be left over.

Josefina's cat Whiskers, climbed into a tree and is afraid to get down. Her Dad climbed up a ladder to get Whiskers down. If he climbed up a ladder 15 steps, and each step is 32 centimeters, how far did he go?

• 192

• 480

• 160