Multi Operational Division and Multiplication Word Problems

What two operations would you use to solve this word problem? Randy bought 15 new pencils for $2.00 each and 10 packs of new crayons for $1.00 each. What was the total amount her spent?

• divide and subtract

• multiply and add

• multiply and divide

• add and divide

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

The Harbor family went to the movies. When everyone was ready for a snack, Mom bought 4 drinks for $3.25 each and 4 popcorns for $2.00 each. What was the total amount Mom spent?

• $21.00

• $43.00

• $5.00

• $11.00

There were 250 monkeys placed in one part of the zoo, during the day. There were 100 more monkeys that were placed in another part of the zoo. When all the monkey were put inside, at the end of the day, they were evenly split up between 7 cages. How any monkeys were in each cage?

• 50 monkeys

• 75 monkeys

• 350 monkeys

• 18 monkeys

Mr. Howard sent Mrs. Howard 7 vases, each with 3 tulips. How many tulips did Mr. Howard send to his beautiful wife?

• 10 tulips

• 4 tulips

• 21 tulips

• 28 tulips

Ximena used 224 lilies to make flower arrangements. She used 8 lilies in each arrangement. Then she sold half the arrangements. How many flower arrangements did Ximena sell?

Jack needs 5 folders for school.  He finds some that cost $2 for a pack of 3.  How much will he need to spend on folders? 

• $4

• $2

• $7

• $8

Kaya has 20 photos of dogs and 30 photos of cats. She displayed an equal number of them on 10 posters for a fund raiser for an animal shelter. How many photos were on each poster? 

• 5

• 150

• 60

• 20

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

The librarian was putting away a box of 2,345 books up on her shelves. If she had 8 shelves, how many books fit equally on each shelf?

• 293

• 1

• 294

• 469