Two Step Multiplication and Division Story Problems

A carpenter fitted 32 brown and white doors in a block of flats.

He fitted 3 times as many brown doors as white doors.

How many white doors did he fit in the block of flats?

What 2 operations would you use to solve this word problem? 240 puppies are for sale at the Mega pet store. The puppies were shared equally between 8 smaller shops. One of those shops sold all their puppies for $300 each. How much did the puppy shop make?

• divide and multiply

• divide and add

• multiply and subtract

• add and multiply

Isabella had 48 books in her room. She split them up equally into 8 piles. She then sold one of those piles for $4.83 for each book. How much money did she make?

• $75.00

• $18.33

• $28.98

• $6.00

Based on the relationship shown in the table, which statement is true?

• The number of packages times 1 equals the number of baseball cards.

• The number of packages plus 1 equals the number of baseball cards.

• The number of packages plus 11 equals the number of baseball cards.

• The number of packages times 11 equals the number of baseball cards.

Cassandra used all the balloons in 11 packages to decorate for a party. •There were 6 balloons in each package. •Half of the balloons in each package were red. Which equation can be used to find the total number of red balloons Cassandra used?

• 11 × 6 - 3 = 63

• 11 × 6 ÷ 2 = 33

• 11 - 6 + 2 = 7

• 11 × 6 ÷ 3 = 22

Sam had 48 cookies. He split the cookies equally into 8 bags. He sold 2 bags of cookies. How many cookies did Sam sell?

Sam sold _____ cookies.

To make posters, 6 students each collected 8 pictures of animals. The students put 4 animal pictures on each poster they made. Which equation shows one way to find the number of posters the students made?

 

• 6 + 8 + 4 = 18

• 6 x 8 ÷ 4 = 12

• 6 x 8 x 4 = 192

• 6 + 8 - 4 = 10

A classroom currently contains 6 rows of chairs with 5 chairs per row. On parents’ night the classroom had twice as many chairs.

Which number sentence can be used to find the number of chairs in the

classroom on parents’ night?

• 6 + 5 +2=?

• 6 X 5 X 2=?

• 6 x 5 ÷ 2 = ?

• 6 + 5 X 2 = ?