There are 52 cattle cars on today's train in Texas. Each car holds 36 cos. How many cows are on the train?
52 x 36 = 2323 There are 2323 cows on the train
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Each child brings in 48 pencils. there are 124 fifth graders at Apple Elementary. How many total pencils did the fifth graders bring?
38 x 124 = 4712
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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 or 52 ÷ 2 x 26 = 650
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Farmer Jim keeps 15 hens in every coop. If Farmer Jim has 25 coops, how many hens does he have in all?
15 x 25 =375
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If 300 hens each lay 9 eggs on each day, how many eggs will Farmer Jim collect each week?
300 x 9 x 7= 18,900
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Jonah rode his bike 108 miles per week while training for the Ironman. How many total miles does he travel in 12 weeks?
108 x 12 = 1,296
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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
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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 r 42 That would cover 21 houses with 42 sockets leftover.
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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 r 24 They could make 11 entire rulers.
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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
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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 = r18 18 extra donuts
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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
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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.
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There are six hundred sixty-eight people attending a luncheon. If a table can hold thirty-three people, how many tables do they need?
668 ÷ 33 20 r 8 They will need to order 21 tables.
