Multiplication Word Problems

20 Fuji apples cost $12. How many Fuji apples can you buy for $3?

• 8

• 7

• 5

• 1

John spent $36 to buy 4 basketballs. What was the price per basketball?

• $9 per basketball

• $144 per basketball

• $8 per basketball

• $12 per basketball

I have a 6 foot-long piece of wood that I want to cut to build picture frames. If each piece is going to be \frac{3}{4} foot long, how many pieces will I be able to cut?

• 8 pieces

• 6 pieces

• 12 pieces

• 24 pieces

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• 8

• 24

• 32

• 30

A teacher is buying pencils for her class. If she buys 12 packs of pencils and each pack contains 4 pencils, how many pencils does she buy in total?

• 48

• 40

• 36

• 50

A gardener plants 9 rows of flowers with 14 flowers in each row. Later, 3 rows of flowers are removed. How many flowers are left?

• 84

• 90

• 108

• 126

Ava went to the store to buy bouncy balls. She found that they were sold in two different packages. Package A has 3 bouncy balls. Package B has 4 bouncy balls. Which combination of packages could Ava buy exactly 18 balls?

• Package A: 2

  Package B: 3

• Package A: 18

  Package B: 18

• Package A: 9

  Package B: 9

• Package A: 5

  Package B: 1

A baker is preparing trays of cupcakes for a party. Each tray can hold 12 cupcakes and he has prepared 3 trays. How many cupcakes has the baker prepared?

• 36

• 24

• 48

• 30

John has 4 bags of marbles. Each bag contains 15 marbles. He gives 18 marbles to his friend and then buys 2 more bags, each containing 15 marbles. How many marbles does John have now?

• 72

• 78

• 84

• 90

A bookshelf has 8 shelves, and each shelf can hold 11 books. How many books can the bookshelf hold in total?

• 88

• 96

• 78

• 80