There are 52 cattle cars on today’s train in Texas.
Each car holds 36 cows. How many cows are on the train?
52 x 36 = 2,323
There are 2,323 cows on the train.
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Each child brings in 28 pencils. There are 124 fifth graders at Apex Elementary. How many total pencils did the fifth graders bring?
38 x 124 =4,712
There are 4,712 total pencils.
15
Maria jogs 25 miles every week. If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many miles does Maria jog in 1/2 the year?
25 x 52 ÷ 2 = 650
Maria jogs 650 miles in 1/2 a year
15
Farmer Jim keeps 15 hens in every coop. If Farmer Jim
has 20 coops, how many hens does he have in all?
15 x 20 = 300
Farmer Jim has 300 hens
15
If 300 hens lay 9 eggs on Monday, how many eggs will
Farmer Jim collect on Monday?
300 x 9 =2,700
He will collect 2,700 eggs on Monday.
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If Farmer Jim collects 56 eggs from 300 hens each week. How
many eggs does he collect in 4 weeks?
300 x 56 = 16,800
Farmer Jim collects 16,800 eggs in 4 weeks.
15
Mrs. Rabb is getting new carpet in her classroom. The
length of her classroom is 116 feet long. It is 87 feet wide.
How many square feet of carpet does she need?
116 x 87 = 10,092
Mrs. Rabb needs 10,092 sq. feet of carpet.
15
Jonah traveled rode his bike 108 miles per week while
training for Ironman. How many total miles does he travel
in 12 weeks?
108 x 12 = 1,296
Jonah rode 1,296 miles in 12 weeks.
15
Jessa is baking cookies for a bake sale. She bakes 45 dozen cookies. How many total cookies does she bake?
45 x 12 = 540
Jessa baked 540 cookies for the bake sale.
15
Maxwell has 16 boxes of toy cars. He has 87 cars in each
box. How many total cars does he altogether?
16 x 87 = 1,392
Maxwell has 1,392 toy cars
15
Each house a carpenter builds needs forty-six electric sockets. If he
bought one thousand eight sockets, how many houses would that
cover?
1008 ÷ 46 = 21 r42
That you cover 21 houses
15
It takes twenty-six grams of plastic to make a ruler. If a company had
three hundred ten grams of plastic, how many entire rulers could they
make?
310 ÷ 26 = 11 r24
They could make 11 entire rulers.
15
A post office has eight hundred twenty-nine pieces of junk mail they
want to split evenly between forty-two mail trucks. How many extra
pieces of junk mail will they have if they give each truck the same
amount?
829 ÷ 42 = 19 r31
31 extra pieces of junk mail.
15
A baker had nineteen boxes for donuts. He ended up making seven
hundred forty donuts and splitting them evenly between the boxes.
How many extra donuts did he end up with?
740 ÷ 19 = 38 r18
18 extra donuts.
15
A recycling company had two hundred twenty-nine pounds of material
to sort. To make it easier they split them into boxes with each full box
having thirty-seven pounds, how many full boxes did they have?
229 ÷ 37 = 6 r7
They will have 6 boxes.
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A grocery store needed two hundred eighty cans of peas. If the peas
come in boxes with twenty-three cans in each box, how many boxes
would they need to order?
280 ÷ 23 = 12 r4
They will need to order 13 boxes.
