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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV- A CALABARZON
Division of Batangas
Lemery Pilot Elementary School
Atienza St., Bagong Sikat, Lemery, Batangas

Name: ___________________________________________________
Grade & Section:__________________________
Date: _____________________________

Solving Word Problems Involving

Multiplication of Whole Numbers
Including Money
Week 5

Word problems teach you to become creative thinkers. It is a catalyst in

order to develop your good understanding. Word problems are very valuable to
solve problems in your everyday lives. You can take your real live situations
and apply the same principles to get the solutions.
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to solve word problems
involving multiplication of whole numbers including money.

Learning Task 1: Read the problem below. Answer the questions that
follow.

Jobette helped his father in the garden. They planted 63 tomato

seedlings in a row. How many tomato seedlings did they plant in 7
rows?

1. Who helped father in the garden?

2. What did they plant?
3. How many tomato seedlings did they plant in a row?
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4. How many rows were planted with tomatoes?

5. What are you going to look for in this problem?
6. What are the given data?
7. What is the number sentence?

Learning Task 2: Analyze each problem and answer the questions

below each item.
A. Problem 1
Krista runs for 60 minutes every day. How many minutes does she
run in a week?
1. What is asked in the problem?
2. What are the given facts?
3. What are the operations to be used?
4. What is the number sentence?
Solution:

5. What is the answer?

B. Problem 2
Jong bought a flat iron for Php999 and a blender for Php1, 840. He
gave Php3, 000 to the cashier. How much change did he get?
6. What is asked in the problem?
7. What are the given facts?
8. What are the operations to be used?
9. What is the number sentence?
Solution:
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10.What is the answer?

Solving Word Problems

Study the story problem below
Cheena saves 15.00 a day. How much will she save in 5 days?
 How much does Cheena save in a day?
 For how many days will Cheena save?
 Who among you are like Cheena?
 How much do you save in a day?
 Is it good to save? Why?

- If you were to solve the problem, what process would you use?
- Is there a word or words in the problem that tell what process or operation
to use?
*Read the problems that used different keywords or word clues to determine the
operation to be used. Let them analyze.
1. A vendor buys 85 boxes of candies. Each box has 100 candies. How
many candies are there in all?
2. Nena bought 12 sets of baby dresses. Each set costs 185. How much did
she pay for all the dresses?
3. Mr. Santos is a postman. He has to deliver 178 letters in a day. How
many letters will he deliver in 25 days?
Study the table below:
Problem 1 Problem 2 Problem 3
How many candies; in How much; for all How many
all
*What operations will you use if you see these words?
Let us solve the problem showing the correct solution and operation.
Example:
 What is asked? *Total number of candies
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 What data/facts are given? *85 boxes of candies

 *100 candies in each box
 What is the operation/process to be used? *Multiplication
 What is the number sentence? *85 x 100 = n
 Solve the number sentence.
 *85 x 100 = 8 500
 What is the complete answer? *There are 8 500 candies in all.

Solving One-Step Word Problem

Read and analyze the problem.

Each worker in Mrs. Guzman’s garment factory can make T-shirts a day.
If there are 250 workers., how many T-shirts can they produce each day?

Let us find the answer this way:

1. Read and understand the problem.

What is asked?
*Number of T-shirts that can be produced each day.
2. What are the given facts?
*250- number of workers in Mrs. Guzman’s garment factory.
*5- number of T-shirts that each worker can make in a day
3. Plan what to do.
a. What is the operation to be used? Multiplication
b. What is the number sentence? 250 x 5= n
4. Do the operation.

250
x 5
1250
5. Write the answer.
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*The workers can produce 1 250 T-shirts each day.

A store sells a shirt for Php399. How much is the cost of 8 shirts?
Solving Two-Step Word Problem

Read and analyze the problem.

Kristel went to a bookstore with her Php500. She bought 7 notebooks for
Php25. How much change did she get?

Let us answer the problem.

1. Read and understand the problem.

What is asked?
*The change that Kristel got
2. What are the given facts?
*Php25- cost of one notebook
*Php500- amount of money of Kristel
3. Plan what to do.
c. What is the operation to be used? Multiplication
d. What is the number sentence? 500 – (25 x 5)= n
4. Do the operation.

Step 1 Step 2
25 500
x7 - 175
175 325
5. Write the answer.
*She got a change of Php325.
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Learning Task 3: Solve the problems and answer the questions after
each item.
1. Bong bought 6 ball pens that cost Php25 each. How much did he pay
in all?
a. What is asked in the problem?
_________________________________________________
b. What are the given facts?
_________________________________________________
c. What operation to be used?
________________________________________________
d. What is the number sentence? __________________
Solution:

e. What is the answer?

_________________________________________________
2. Kiara bought 8 necklaces at Tala by Kyla at Php450 each. How much
did she pay in all?
a. What is asked in the problem?
_________________________________________________
b. What are the given facts?
_________________________________________________
c. What operation to be used?
________________________________________________
d. What is the number sentence? __________________
Solution:

e. What is the answer?

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_________________________________________________
Learning Task 4: Analyze each problem and answer the question below
each item.
1. Ma’am Zara sold 100 pieces of banana cake for Php67 each. After paying
her assistant baker Php5 for each banana cake, how much of the amount
was left?
a. What is asked in the problem?
_________________________________________________
b. What are the given facts?
_________________________________________________
c. What operation to be used?
________________________________________________
d. What is the number sentence? __________________
Solution:

e. What is the answer?

_________________________________________________
2. Simeon bought to 8 packs of juice and 10 loaves of bread for his guests.
A pack of juice and a loaf of bread cost Php250 and Php45, respectively.
How much did he pay in all?
1. What is asked in the problem?
_________________________________________________
2. What are the given facts?
_________________________________________________
3. What operation to be used?
________________________________________________
4. What is the number sentence? __________________
Solution:
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5. What is the answer?

_________________________________________________
Learning Task 5: Read and understand each problem. Solve using Polya’s
method. You may use extra paper to show your answers.
1. Mang Berto picked 25 small baskets of atis. If each basket contained 45 atis,
how many atis were there in all?
2. If each basket of atis cost 120.00, how much will Mang Berto receive for 25
small baskets of atis?
3. Mr. Lee sells mangoes by baskets. Each basket contains 26 mangoes. How
many mangoes does 34 baskets have?
4. Alma saves 25.00 a day in her piggy bank. How much money will she save
in twelve days?
5. Pet could read 75 pages of his favorite pocketbook in a day. If he would
read for 12 days, how many pages would he finished?

REMEMBER!

In solving word problems, it is important that you follow the given

steps on how to solve it. This will help you overcome your fear in different
problem that you encounter in our lesson.

Steps in solving word problem:

1. Read and understand the problem.

2. What are the given facts?
3. Plan what to do.
4. Do the operation.
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5. Write the answer.

Learning Task 6: The facts in each problem have been removed. Write
your own numbers on the lines, then solve the problem. Use extra paper to write
your answers.

1. Lina can type ____ words in a multiple. How many words can she
type in ____ minutes?

2. There are ____ players in a basketball team. How many players are
there in _____ teams? Assume that all the teams have the same
number of players.

3. Krissan bought _______ bottles of alcohol and _____ box of

facemasks. If one bottle of alcohol cost Php37, and a box of facemask
cost Php120, how much did she pay in all?

4. Molly is _____ years old. Tin is _____ years younger than Molly.
Sean is twice as old as Tin. What is the age of Sean?

Reflection: Write your personal insights about the lesson using the prompts
below:
I understand that __________________________________________
I realize that _______________________________________________
I promise that ______________________________________________
Prepared by:

JELYN H. MALIGAYA
Teacher III