Multiplying and Dividing Decimals with Word Problems

On Saturday,12 friends go ice skating.Altogether,they pay $83.40 for admission.They share the cost equally.How much does each person pay?

• 7.95

• 6.95

• 9.93

• 8.73

Brittany has a pack of 24 pencils.  Each pencil weighs 0.9 grams.  How much does the pack of pencils weigh?

• 21.6 grams

• 24.9 grams

• 33 grams

Clayton's family eats 4.3 pounds of cereal each week. How many pounds of cereal will Clayton's family eat in 8 weeks?

• 3.7 pounds

• 12.3 pounds

• 34.4 pounds

• .5375 pounds

Tim bikes 9.4 miles each day. How far does Tim bike in 3 days?

• 30 miles

• 25 miles

• 28.2 miles

• 29.6 miles

Miguel has 3 liters of lemonade. He is selling 0.15 liter glasses of lemonade. How many glasses of lemonade will he be able to sell?

• 15

• 19

• 18

• 20

The cafeteria is buying 4500 boxes of juice with 3.98 pints in each box. About how many pints of juice is the cafeteria buying?

• 25,000 pints

• 15,000 pints

• 18,000 pints

• 5,000 pints

Tyler planted a garden that is 7.84 meters by 5.5 meters. He multiplied 784 x 55 to find the area of his garden. He used estimation to decide where to place the decimal. Which of the following shows where Tyler should place the decimal?

• 4,312m²

• 43.12m²

• 431.2m²

• 4.312m²

Two factors are multiplied, and their product is 8964.36. One factor is a whole number. How many decimals places are in the other factor? Tell how you know.

The other factor has ​ (a)   decimal place(s) because the number of decimal places in the product is the ​ (b)   the number of decimals places in the factors.

• 2

• sum of

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

• difference of

• quotient of

• product of

To solve the problem, Ms. Parker must move the decimal point in the ​ (a)   to the ​ (b)   to get a whole number. This is the same as multiplying by ​ (c)   , so she should also move the decimal point in the ​ (d)   . The correct quotient is ​ (e)   .

• divisor

• number

• right

• 100

• 10

• 1000

• dividend

• 13

• 1.3

• 0.0013

Kevin Hart's son is saving money to buy a new shirt that costs $153.66, including tax. He does a talent show at his middle school to earn some money. He charged $9.85 per ticket. Determine whether Kevin Hart's son could use each expression to find the number of tickets he will have to sell to earn enough money to buy the shirt. Organize these options into the right categories:

Groups:

(a) Yes

,

(b) No