Application of Multiplication and Division Problems

Do I Multiply or Divide??? When to Multiply When to Divide Are you making groups? OF Groups of Times Multiplied by Are you taking an amount and sorting or breaking it up into equal or multiple parts? Divided by Shared equally

A piece of bratwurst sausage is 8 inches long A piece of bratwurst sausage is 8 inches long. How many pieces of sausage can be cut from the 8 inch piece of sausage if each piece is to be 2/3 of an inch? Ms. Swanson has 40 pairs of shoes. 6/8 of her shoes are high heels. How many of her shoes are high heeled?

In a library, ½ of the books are fiction In a library, ½ of the books are fiction. Of those fiction books, 1/4 are realistic fiction. What fraction of the books in the library are realistic fiction? A construction worker has 16m of wood. He cuts the wood into pieces that are ½m long. How many pieces did he cut? A painter used 4/5 of a can of paint to paint 8 birdhouses. He used the same amount of paint to paint each birdhouse. How much of a can did he use for each birdhouse? A recipe requires 1/3 cups of milk. If I make 6 batches of the recipe, how much milk will I need? 5. If it takes 2/5 yards of material to make a shirt, how many yards will it take to make 7 shirts?