Grade 5 Math: Check Your Solutions in Word Problems

A bakery sells 120 cookies. If they sell 15 cookies each hour, how many hours will it take to sell all the cookies? Check your answer by multiplying the hours by 15.

• 6 hours

• 12 hours

• 10 hours

• 8 hours

Lily has 45 marbles. She gives 9 marbles to each of her 3 friends. How many marbles does she have left? Verify your solution by adding the marbles given away to the remaining marbles.

• 9

• 18

• 27

• 36

A farmer has 250 apples. He packs them into boxes that hold 25 apples each. How many boxes does he need? Check your answer by multiplying the number of boxes by 25.

• 12

• 10

• 15

• 8

Tom read 30 pages of a book on Monday and 45 pages on Tuesday. How many pages did he read in total? Confirm your answer by adding the pages read on both days.

• 100 pages

• 90 pages

• 75 pages

• 60 pages

A toy store has 150 toys. If they donate 20 toys each month, how many toys will they have after 5 months? Check your answer by calculating the total number of toys donated and subtracting from 150.

• 30

• 100

• 50

• 70

Sarah has 60 stickers. She wants to share them equally among her 4 friends. How many stickers will each friend get? Verify your solution by multiplying the number of friends by the stickers each receives.

• 20

• 25

• 10

• 15

A school has 300 students. If 75 students are in the 5th grade, what fraction of the students are not in the 5th grade? Check your answer by subtracting the number of 5th graders from the total number of students.

• 1/3

• 3/4

• 1/2

• 2/5

A library has 500 books. If 125 books are checked out, how many books remain in the library? Confirm your answer by subtracting the checked-out books from the total.

• 500

• 250

• 400

• 375

A gardener plants 12 rows of flowers with 8 flowers in each row. How many flowers did the gardener plant in total? Check your answer by multiplying the number of rows by the flowers per row.

• 100

• 96

• 80

• 72

Emma has 90 candies. She wants to put them into bags with 10 candies each. How many bags will she need? Verify your solution by multiplying the number of bags by 10.

• 8

• 9

• 7

• 10