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GRADE 4 MATHEMATICS
CONSOLIDATION MODULE: MULTIPLICATION
& DIVISION WITH RATE & RATIO

Developed by Ms M Fredericks
OVERBERG EDUCATION DISTRICT
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Multiplication and Division
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Do all the exercises in your classwork book showing all workings.
2. Number according to the questions per section.
3. First attempt to answer all the questions before you check answers at the end of each section.

Routine Procedures:
Items Items
1. Fill in the missing number in these calculations. 2. Write number sentences for this array.
a. 5 x 4 = 
b. 3 x 4= 
c. 7 x  = 35
d.  x 2= 18
e. 3 x = 27

3. Fill in the inverse triangles 4. Study the example and write as many number sentences with the three
numbers using the signs (x; ÷; =)

Example 3, 5, 15 a. b.
3 x 5 = 15 12, 6, 2 30, 5, 6
5 x 3=15
15 ÷ 3= 5
5 x 6
15 ÷ 5= 3

5. 47 x 6 =  6. 88 x 50 = 

7. 33 x 30 =  8. 889 ÷ = 127

9. 195 ÷ 5 =  10. 56 x 45 = 

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11. 35 x 18 =  12.
72

9 x 

13. 57 × 37 =  14. 224 ÷ 7 = 

15. 544 ÷ 8 =  16. 43 x 61 = 

17. If 4 x 15 = 60, what is 8 x 15? 18. 144 ÷ 6 = 

19. Use the numbers to write one multiplication sum and one division sum. 20. If 6 x 12 = 72, what is 60 x 12 = ?

42 6 x =
7 ÷ =

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 MEMORANDUM: Routine Procedures
ITEMS ITEMS
1. 2. 2 groups of 3 2x3=6
a. 5 x 4 = 20 3 groups of 2 3x2=6
b. 3 x 4= 12
c. 7 x 5 = 35
d. 9 x 2= 18
e. 3 x 9= 27

3. 30 4.
a. b.
12, 6, 2 30, 5, 6
2 x 6 = 12 5 x 6 = 30
6 x 2 = 12 6 x 5 = 30
5 x 6 12 ÷ 2 = 6 30 ÷ 5 = 6
12 ÷ 6 = 2 30 ÷ 6 = 5
5 x 6 = 30 30 ÷ 6 = 5 30 ÷ 5 =6
5. 47 x 6 = 47 x 2 x 3 6. 88 x 5 x 10
= 94 x 3 = 80 x 5 = 400
= (90 + 4) x 3 = 8 x 5 = 40
= 90 x 3 + 4 x 3 = 400 + 40 = 440 x 10 – 4 400
= 270 + 12
= 282

7. 33 x 30 8. 889 ÷  = 127
= 33 x 3 x 10 The question is actually 127 x  = 889
= 99 x 10 = 990 = 889 ÷127 =  10 groups of 127 = 1 270 which is
too much, more than 889
-635 5 groups of 127 = 635
254 2 groups of 127 = 254
- 254
000 5 + 2 groups = 7 groups
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9. 195 ÷ 5 = 39 10. 54 x 45= 2 430
100 + 90 + 5 all ÷ by 5 ( 50 + 4) x (40 + 5)
↓ ↓ ↓ = 50 x 40 = 2 000
20 + 18 + 1 = 50 x 5 = 250
= 39 = 4 x 40 = 160
= 4 x 5 = 20
= 2 000 + 250 + 160 + 20 = 2 430
11. 35 x 18 12. 8
= 35 x 2 x 9
= 35 x 2 x 3 x 3
= 70 x 3 = 210 x 3 = 630
13. 57 x 37 = 2 109 14. 227 ÷ 7 = 32 remainder 3

= 227 ÷ 7 = 
227
-210 30 groups of 7 = 210
17 2 groups of 7 = 14
- 14
3 30 + 2 groups = 32 groups
remainder 3

15. 16. 43 x 61 = 2 623

=(40 + 3) x (60 + 1)
= 40 x 60 = 2 400
= 40 x 1 = 40
= 3 x 60 = 180
= 3 x 1= 3
= 2 400 + 240 + 180 + 3 = 2 623

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 = 544 ÷ 8 = 

544 50 groups of 8 = 400

-400 10 groups of 8 = 80
144
80
64 8 groups of 8 = 64
64
00 50 + 10 + 8 groups = 68
groups

17. 60 doubled = 120. 4 double is 8 18. 144 ÷ 6 – 24

4 x 15 = 60
8 x 15 = 120
19. 6 x 7 = 42 20. 6 x 12 = 72
7 x 6 = 42 60 x 12 = 720
42 ÷ 6 = 7
42 ÷ 7 = 6

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 WORD PROBLEMS
Read the problems and answer the questions:
ITEMS ITEMS
1. One ant has 6 legs. How many legs will 38 ants have altogether? 21. A crowd of eight hundred people were at a rugby game.
There were 5 rows. How many people sat in each row?

2. A farmer has 17 fields and puts 5 cows in each field. How many cows will 22. A teacher drives every day 51 kilometres to school. How far does she
there be altogether? travel in seven weeks?

3. A teacher is going on holiday in his sports car which has 4 wheels and 23. When two numbers are multiplied, the answer is 484.
packed with 3 suitcases. How many wheels will 96 sports cars have? One of the numbers is 121. What is the other number?

4. A florist sold bunches of flowers for Mother’s Day. Each bunch had a 24. Loren and Sizwe counted the desks in their classroom. Each desk cost
dozen roses. How many roses will there be in 16 bunches? R44 each. How much did it cost the school to buy 45 desks?

5. There are 33 containers on a ship in the Cape Town harbour. There are 22 25. The taxi driver travels at 95 kilometres per hour. How many kilometres
boxes in each container. How many boxes were on the ship? will the taxi travel in 18 hours?

6. There were 98 people who went to a school concert. Each person paid 26. Mikaela and John received spending money of R82 each per month. How
R16 for a ticket. What was the total amount of ticket money collected? much money did each one receive for one full year?

7. The length of the garden needed to be fenced off. Calculate the length 27. Matthew and Marzel received spending money of R95 each per month.
of the fence that is 29 times as long as the picture of the fence below. How much money did each one receive over three full years?

28m
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8. It costs 80c for one learner to swim at the public swimming pool. How 28. There are 11 classes in a school, each with 34 learners in each class. How
much does it cost for a class of 20 learners to swim? Write your answer in many newsletters needed to be photocopied for each learner to take one
Rand and cent. newsletter home?

9. A cinema sold tickets at R17 each. The table below shows the amount of 29. Danika shops for fruit at a local shop. She bought:
tickets sold per day:
Tuesday 10 • Twelve 1 kg packets of bananas at R11 per kilogram
Wednesday 13 • Eleven 1 kg packets of apples at R13 per kilogram
Thursday 26
Friday 68
Saturday 44
a) How much did she pay for the bananas?
a) How much money did the cinema make on Tuesday and Wednesday?
b) How much did she pay for the apples?
b) Which day did they make the most money?
c) How much did she pay altogether?
c) How much did they make altogether?
d) How much change will she get from R300,00?
d) How much money did they make altogether on Thursday and
Saturday?
10. A multi-storey car park has space for 45 cars on each of the 14 floors. 30. Thembi saved money each week for four weeks. She saved R628,00. How
How many cars are there if the car park is full? much money did she save per week?

11. A school spent R49 on computer mouse pads. There are 86 computers 31. A supermarket sold 312 packs of yoghurt in one day. If there are 6
on the school premises. How much money did the school spend? yoghurts in each pack, how many yoghurts were sold?

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 WORD PROBLEMS
Read each problem and answer the questions:
ITEMS ITEMS
12. 75 bricks are needed to build one wall of a house – how many bricks 32. Paper clips are sold in boxes which contains 44 paper clips each.
will be needed to build sixteen walls? a) How many paper clips are sold in 12 boxes?
b) How many paper clips are sold in 35 boxes?

13. Jane swam in a swimming pool that is 12 metres long. How many metres 33. Shirley is planning to cycle 108 km. She wants to split her journey into
would she swim if she did 83 lengths? six equal days. How far does she need to cycle each day?

14. 34. David bought a bicycle for R738,00. He has 6 months to pay it off. How
The 4-digit cards generated a 3-digit number sharing equally by a one-digit much money does he have to pay per month?
number. Write a number sentence to share equally amongst 7 learners.

2 8 3 7

15. Eight people shared a prize of R488. How much money did each person 35. The mass of a dog is 67 kg. A horse is ten times heavier than the dog.
receive? What is the total mass of the horse?

16. Mr. Daniels can have 115 days of vacation each year. He wants to divide 36. 146 people were transported in vans that each carry 9 passengers. How
those days into 4 vacations. How long should he make his vacations? many vans were needed?
Make them as close to the same length as possible.

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 WORD PROBLEMS
ITEMS ITEMS
17. Can you pack 417 tennis balls into containers equally so that each 37. If you can fit 50 people into one bus, how many buses would you
container can hold: need to transport 940 people?
a) 4
b) 5

18. Mr. Lungile wants to paint 740 blocks with 6 different colours—red, 38. Clarence had 612 Jawbreaker sweets. If he divides the sweets
orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple – in nearly equal amounts. How equally between his 8 friends and then ate what was left, how many
many blocks will he paint with each colour? Jawbreakers did each person eat?

19. I have two piles of stones. One pile has one more stones as the other pile. I have
39 stones altogether. How many stones in each pile?
20. What is the product of 99 and 32?
39. I have two piles of stones. One pile has twice as many stones as the
other pile. I have 30 stones altogether. How many stones in each
pile?
40. There are 528 flamingos migrating to warmer areas. If they fly in
groups of 6, how many groups of flamingos migrated to warmer
areas?

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 WORD PROBLEMS
ITEMS ITEMS
41. Which two city parks have equivalent ratios of planted yellowwood trees to the 42. Which two recycling plants have equivalent ratios of green bottles to
total number of trees in the park? the total number of bottles recycled in one day?

City Parks Yellowwood Trees Total Trees Planted Recycling Plants Green Bottles Total Bottles Recycled
Planted
Recycled
Kirstenbosch 23 115
Plant A 18 140
De Waal 50 260
Plant B 32 256
Sandvlei 48 216
Plant C 24 196
Harold Porter 64 320
Plant D 13 104

43. You can buy 3 apples at Shoprite for R1,08. You can buy 5 of the same apples
at Shop and Save for R1,05. Which place is the better buy?
45. Which two rugby games have equivalent ratios of scrums to the number of tries
scored?
44. You can buy 5 tins of green peas at the Village Market for R2,00. You can
buy 10 of the same tins of peas at Checkers for R6,30. Which place is the
better buy?
46. The bakers at Sasko Bakery can make 280 rolls in 5 hours. How many rolls
can they bake in 14 hours? What was the rate per hour?

Rugby Games Scrums Number of Tries Scored

Stormers 3 51
Bulls 3 48
Lions 2 36
Sharks 2 34
47. A rollercoaster can accommodate 50 people in 20 minutes. 48. An ice cream factory makes 320 litres of ice cream in 10 hours.
a. How many people could ride the rollercoaster in 2 hours? a. How many litres of ice cream could be made in 12 hours?
b. What was the rate per hour? b. What was the rate per day?
49. An aeroplane travels 510 kilometres in 2 hours. At this rate, how far could the jet fly 50. What is the rate of speed of the jet?
in 9 hours?

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 MEMORANDUM: Word problems
ITEMS CL ITEMS CL
1. (30 + 8) x 6 RP 21. 800 ÷ 5 = 160 RP
30 x 6 = 180
= 8 x 6 = 48
= 108 + 48 = 228
= 38 x 6 = 228
2. = 17 x 5 = 85 RP 22. 51 km x 5-day week x 7 weeks = 1 785km CP
= 10 x 5 = 50
= 7 x 5 = 35
= 50 + 35 = 85
3. = 96 x 4 =384 RP 23. 484 ÷ 4 =121 CP
= 90 x 4 = 360
= 6 x 4 = 24
= 360 + 24 = 384
4. 12(a dozen) x 16 = 192 RP 24. 44 x 45 = R1 980 RP.
5. 33 x 22 RP 25. 98 x 18 = 1 710 km RP
33 x 20 which is the same as 33 x 2 x 10 = 660
= 33 x 2 = 66
= 660 + 66 = 726
6. 98 x R16 = R 1 568 CP 26. R82 x 12 = R984 CP
7. 28 x 29 = 812 RP 27. R95 x 36 = R3 420 (3 years is 36 months) CP
20 + 8 x 20 + 9
= 20 x 20 = 400
= 20 x 9 = 180
= 8 x 20 = 160
= 8 x 9 = 72
= 400 + 180 + 160 + 72 = 812m

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 MEMORANDUM: Word problems
ITEMS CL ITEMS
8. 80c x 20 = 1600 = R16,00 CP 28. 11 x 34 = 374 RP
9. (a) 10 x 17 = R170 CP 29. (a) 12 x 11 = 132 CP
13 x 17 = R221 (b) 11 x 13 = 143
R170 + R221 = R391 (c) 132 + 143 = 275
(b) Friday (d) R300 – R 275 = R25
(c) 68 x 17 = R 1 156
(d) 26 x 17 = R442
44 x 17 = R748
R442 + R 748 = R 1 190
10. 45 x 14 = 630 CP 30. 628 ÷ 4 = R157 CP
11. 49 x 86 = 4 214 CP 31. 312 x 6 = 1 872 CP
12. 75 x 16 = 1 200 RP 32. (a) 44 x 12 = 528 CP
(b) 44 x 35 = 1 540
13. 12 x 83 = 996 RP 33. 108 ÷ 6 = 18 km RP
14. 283 ÷ 7 = 40 remainder 3 CS 34 738 ÷ 6 = R123 CP
15. 488 ÷ 8 = 61 CP 35. 67 x 10 = 670 kg RP
16. 115 ÷ 4 = 28 days RP 36. 146 ÷ 9 = 16. The remainder needs to count so PS
17 vans were needed.
17 (a) 104 remainder 1 so need 105 CP 37. 940 ÷ 50 = 18. The remainder needs to count for a bus so PS
(b) 83 remainder 2 so need 84 19 buses were needed.
18. 740 ÷ 6 = 123 remainder 2 CP 38. 612 ÷ 8 = 76. 4 were left. CP
19. 39 -1 = 38 ÷ 2 = 19 PS 39. 30 ÷ 3 = 10 PS
One pile will have 19. The other pile will have 20 One pile will have 10. The other pile will have 10+10 = 20
20. 99 x 32 = 3 168 CP 40. 528 ÷ 6 = 88 CP

41. Kirstenbosch and Harold Porter. Both have 5. PS 42. Plant B: 32 x 8 = 256 CP
Plant D: 13 x 8 = 104

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 MEMORANDUM: Word problems
ITEMS CL ITEMS CL
43. Shop and Save CP 44. Village Market CP
45. Stormers 51 ÷ 3 = 17 CP 46. a. 784 CP
Sharks 34 ÷ 2 = 17 b. 56 rolls per hour
47a. 300. There are 150 people for one hour and there are 300 CP 48. a. 384 litres CP
people for 2 hours b. 768 litres per day
b.150 There 50 people for 20 minutes, 100 people for 40
minutes and 150 people for 60 minutes (1 hour)
49. (510 ÷ 2) x 9 = 2295 km CP 50. 510 ÷ 2 = 255 km per hour CP

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 Multiple Choice Questions
Circle the correct letter.
1. Write 5 x 6 as a repeated addition. 11. A hotel has 7 floors. The lobby, restaurant and gym are located on the
ground floor. The guestrooms are on the 1st to 6th floors. If there are 35
A. 5x6=5+6 standard rooms on each floor, how many standard rooms are there?
B. 5x6=5+5+5+5+5
C. 5x6=6+6+6+6+6+6 A. 120
B. 320
D. 5x6=6+6+6+6+6
C. 149
D. 210
2. Calculate: 23 x 15 =  12. Pandina has 112 apples. She shared all of the apples with 7 friends.
How many apples did each friend receive?
A. 345
B. 335 A. 83
C. 355 B. 85
D. 353 C. 16
D. 81
3. Calculate the following: 78 x 17 =  13. Patiswa’s cat ate 42 tins of cat food in 6 weeks. If the cat ate the equal
number of tins each week, how many tins was eaten per week?
A. 1 375
B. 1 341 A. 6
B. 8
C. 1 326
C. 9
D. 1 300 D. 7
4. The product of 24 and 100 =  14. Calculate: 660 ÷ 6 = 

A. 1 240 A. 66
B. 2 400 B. 330
C. 1 200 C. 11
D. 1 000 D. 110

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 Multiple Choice Questions
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5. There are 61 boxes of pencils in a shop. There are 14 pencils in each box. 15. What is the mass of 34 packets of chips that weighs 80g each?
How many pencils are in the shop?
A. 272g
A. 854 B. 560g
B. 4 C. 1 920g
C. 75 D. 2 720g
D. 47
6. Jack’s grandfather’s age divided by 14 is 6. What is the age of Jack’s 16. Mr Ndovu has 426 bags of oranges in his warehouse and he has to share it
grandfather? equally amongst 6 Spaza shop owners. How many bags of oranges does each
Spaza shop owner get?
A. 56
B. 86 A. 71
C. 78 B. 61
D. 84 C. 77
D. 82
7. Julia read a book in 20 days. She read 16 pages every day for the first 15 17. Mr Ndovu made a mistake. He has 426 bags of oranges in his warehouse and he
days and 18 pages every day for the last 5 days. Which is the correct has to share it equally amongst 7 Spaza shop owners. How many bags of oranges
does each Spaza shop owner get? How bags are left?
calculation to use to find how many pages Julia read?
A. 70 bags and 6 bags remaining
A. 16 + 18 B. 60 bags and 7 bags remaining
B. 15 x 16 + 5 x 18 C. 60 bags and 16 bags remaining
C. 20 x 16 D. 60 bags and 6 bags remaining
D. 18 x 5

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 Multiple Choice Questions
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8. A teacher travels from Caledon to Villiersdorp and back in one day. The 18. What is the product of 34 x 32 x 0?
distance one way is 41 km. How many km did she travel in ten days?
A. 1 088
A. 410 km B. 0
B. 82 km C. 100
C. 820 km D. 1 808
D. 205 km
9. The product of 3 consecutive numbers is 120. What is the value of the three 19. A passenger plane makes daily trips to Durban and back. The plane
numbers? had 792 passengers for 6 flights. There was exactly the same number
of passengers per flight. How many passengers were on each trip?
A. 1,2,3
B. 3,4,5 A. 132
C. 4,5,6 B. 123
D. 5,6,7 C. 321
D. 231
10. The estimated answer for the following is: 20. Bronwyn travels to Port Elizabeth to visit her parents. The distance is
78 x 28 ≈ 2 210. What is the accurate answer? 730 km. She plans her trip so that she has 5 stopovers (equally
spaced). How many kilometres between each stopover?
A. 2 222
B. 2 022 A. 186km
C. 2 184 B. 150km
D. 2 202 C. 146km
D. 300km

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 Multiple Choice Questions
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21. Which two recipes have equivalent ratios of cups of flour needed to the 22. Which two types of cars have equivalent ratios of kilometres
number of biscuits? travelled to litres of petrol used?
Recipes Cups of Flour Needed Number of Cars Kilometers Liters of Petrol
Biscuits Traveled Used
Oatmeal Raisin 4 40 Corsa 42 3
Buttermilk 2 22 Hyundai 48 4
Cashew Nut 3 33 Toyota 46 3
Peanut Butter 3 32 Ford 28 2

A. Oatmeal Raisin and Peanut Butter A. Ford and Corsa

B. Peanut Butter and Cashew Nut B. Hyundai and Ford
C. Oatmeal Raisin and Buttermilk C. Corsa and Toyota
D. Cashew Nut and Buttermilk D. Toyota and Hyundai

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 MEMORANDUM: Multiple Choice Questions
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Item KL Item KL
1. D KP 11. D RP
2. A RP 12. C RP
3. C RP 13. D RP
4. B RP 14. D RP
5. A RP 15. D RP
6. D CP 16. A RP
7. B RP 17. D RP
8. C CP 18. B KP
9. C CP 19. A RP
10. C RP 20. C CP
21. D CP
22. A CP

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