Multiplication

Word Problems
Engage your students with
these themed word
problems!
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1. The Ninja Turtles are helping deliver mail this week. A mail sorting machine can sort 774 pieces
of mail an hour. If it ran for 77 hours, how many pieces of mail would it have sorted?

2. Michaelangelo is driving a mail truck. Each mail truck has 270 pieces of junk mail. If there are
99 mail trucks in all, how much junk mail do they have total?

3. Leonardo stops at a pencil factory later that day. The industrial machine could make 418 pencils
in a second. How many pencils would it have made in the 15 seconds Leonardo watched it?

4. Donatello loves gumballs almost as much as he does pizza! Each day the gumball machine in the
mall sells 164 gum balls. How many gum balls would they have sold after 61 days?

5. A pizza delivery service had 573 customers. If each customer paid $19 each time they ordered,
how much money would they make in all?

6. Raphael was collecting used pizza boxes for recycling. In 5 months he had collected 634
containers with 76 pizza boxes inside each container. How many pizza boxes did he have total?

7. Michaelangelo was building a pizza box tower. He built it with 139 stories and with 18 boxes on
each story. How many pizza boxes would he have used?

8. The Ninja Turtles are entering a race. The race is 993 meters long. If 28 people, or turtles, ran
in the race, how many meters would they have run total?
Answer Key & Credits
1. 59,598
2. 26,730
3. 6,270
4. 10,004
5. 10,887
6. 48,184
7. 2,502
8. 27,804

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