Multiplication and Division

Miss Watson has 3 bags of beads. Each bag contains 125 beads. Miss Watson plans to create necklaces with her beads. Each necklace will have 9 beads. What is the greatest number of necklaces Miss Watson can make with the amount of beads she has?

*You have to interpret the remainder: Drop it? Round up? or Use it?

• 6 necklaces

• 12 necklaces

• 40 necklaces

• 41 necklaces

Reams of paper come in packs of 1,000. If Mrs. Arterberry purchases 525 reams for VRE, how many pieces of paper does the school have? Remember what we do when we multiply and divide by 10s, 100s, and 1,000s. Ask yourself if you know your total or not. That will help you decide what strategy to use.

• 525,000

• 5,250

• 52,500

• 500,025

What is the product of 74 and 26?

• 1,429

• 1,942

• 1,924

• 924

Lauren is solving 6 x 283. Which equation shows one way to solve 6 x 283?

• 6 x 283 = (6+200) x (6+80) x (6+3)

• 6 x 283 = (6x200) + (6x80) + (6x3)

• 6 x 283 = (6x200) x (6x80) x (6x3)

• 6 x 283 = (6+200) + (6+80) + (6+3)

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

What is the quotient of 876 and 4?

*Use the box method to solve this problem.

• 219

• 3,504

• 291

• 912

There are 336 cookies that will be packed into bags. Each bag will contain 8 cookies. How many bags of cookies will be filled?*Do you know your total? What do you do if you do know it? If you do know it, your answer cannot be greater than it.

• 24 bags

• 2,688

• 42 bags

• 43 bags

• 3

• 5

• 4

• 6

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 12