NCERT solutions for Math - Magic [English] Class 5 chapter 13 - Ways to Multiply and Divide [Latest edition]

Use Bela's method to multiply these numbers.

• 32 × 46

Use Bela's method to multiply these numbers

• 67 × 18

Do these in your notebook using Bela's method

• 47 × 19

Do these in your notebook using Bela's method

• 188 × 91

Do these in your notebook using Bela's method

• 63 × 57

Do these in your notebook using Bela's method

• 225 × 22

Do these in your notebook using Bela's method

• 360 × 12

Do these in your notebook using Bela's method

• 163 × 42

Shantaram is a special cook who comes only on party days. Last year he was called for only 28 days. For each day he has to be paid Rs 165. Find out how much money he will get in all.

If he is called for all days of the year, how much salary will he get?

Now find the salaries of the minister and horse rider for 1 year.

Sohan drinks 8 glasses of water every day.

• How many glasses will he drink in one month?

Sohan drinks 8 glasses of water every day.

• How many glasses will he drink in one year?

Sohan drinks 8 glasses of water every day.

• If 125 people living in a colony drink 8 glasses of water in a day, how much water will they drink in a year?

If Soha s heart beats 72 times in one minute, how many times does it beat in one hour?

• Now find out how many times it beats in one day.
• Count your own heartbeats to find out how many times your heart beats in one week.

A baby elephant drinks around 12 L of milk every day. How much milk will it drink in two years?

A baby blue whale drinks around 200 L of milk in one day. Just imagine how much milk that is! Find out how many days your family would use 200 L milk. How much milk would the baby blue whale drink in eight months.

Karunya bought three fields.

Find the area of all three fields.

• Field (A) ____________ square metre.
• Field (B) ____________ square metre.
• Field (C) ____________ square metre.

He bought a field (A) at the rate of Rs 95 for a square metre, field (B) at Rs 110 for a square metre and field (C) at Rs 120 for a square metre.

• Find the cost of all three fields.

Thulasi and her husband work on Karunya s farm. The Government has said that farmworkers should be paid at least Rs 71 for one day s work. But he pays Rs 55 to Thulasi and Rs 58 to her husband.

• If Thulasi works for 49 days, how much money does she get?
• If her husband works for 42 days, how much money does he get?
• Find the money they earn together ______

I saw this in the newspaper. Governments of different states have said that farm workers should not be paid less than this salary for a day's work

The table shows the amounts fixed by four states.

• For farm work which state has fixed the highest amount? Which state has fixed the lowest?

I saw this in the newspaper. Governments of different states have said that farmworkers should not be paid less than this salary for a day's work.

The table shows the amounts fixed by four states.

• Bhairon Singh is a worker in Rajasthan. If he works for 8 weeks on the farm, how much will he earn?

I saw this in the newspaper. Governments of different states have said that farm workers should not be paid less than this salary for a day's work

The table shows the amounts fixed by four states.

• Neelam is a worker in Haryana. If she works for 2 ½ months on the farm, how much will she earn?

I saw this in the newspaper. Governments of different states have said that farm workers should not be paid less than this salary for a day's work

The table shows the amounts fixed by four states.

• How much more will a farmworker in Madhya Pradesh get than a worker in Orissa after working for 9 weeks?

Satish is a 13-year-old boy. His father had taken a loan for farming. But the crops failed. Now Satish’s mother has to pay Rs 5000 every month for the loan.

Satish started working — he looked after 17 goats of the village.

He earns Rupee 1 every day for one goat.

• How much will he earn in one month?
• Does he earn enough to help pay the loan every month?
• How much will he earn in one year?

To help farmers the State Government gave cows. Kamla Bai Gudhe also got a cow. The cost of the cow was Rs 17,500. She had to pay Rs 5,500 and the government spent the rest of the money.

• How much did the government spend on the cow?
• If 9 people from her village got cows, how much did the government spend in all?

But Kamla Bai was not happy, She had to spend Rs 85 every day on the cow. She made some money by selling the milk. But still, she wanted to sell the cow.

• If Kamla Bai spends Rs 85 a day, find out how much she will spend in one month.
• The cow gives 8 litres of milk every day. How much will it give in one month?
• If the milk is sold at Rs 9 per litre, how much money will Kamla Bai make in one month?

So the money spent on keeping the cow was Rs _______.

Money earned by selling the milk Rs _________

Which is more money spent on the cow or money earned from it?
How much?

Explain why she wanted to sell the cow.

Sukhi works on a farm. He is paid Rs 98 for one day. If he works for 52 days, how much will he earn?

Hariya took a loan to build his house. He has to pay back Rs 2,750 every month for two years. How much will he pay back in 2 years?

Ratiram is a milk seller in the city. He sells 13 litres of milk everyday at Rs 23 per litre. How much does he earn?

A farmer sells 1 litre of milk for Rs 11. In one month he sells 210 litres of milk. How much does he earn in a month?

A company sells 1 litre of packed water for Rs 12. A shopkeeper buys 240 litres of packed water. How much does he pay?

Look for the pattern and take this forward.
(0 × 9) + 1 = 1
(1 × 9) + 2 = 11
(12 × 9) + 3 = 111
(123 × 9) + 4 = ______
(1234 × 9) + 5 = ______
(12345 × 9) + 6 = ______

Each letter a, b, c here stands for a number.
      aaa
   × aaa
      aaa
     aaa0
+ aaa00
   abcba

Take a = 1, then find what the numbers b and c will be.

Tricks with your age.

Write your age ______

Multiply it by 7 ______

Again, multiply the answer by 13 ______

Multiply again that answer by 11 ______

Now, look at your last answer. Can you find your age in that answer?
How many times does your age show in the answer?
Now try this trick with other people.

Going round and round!

Do you find a pattern in all these answers? Discuss this with your friends.

Dolma took a loan from a friend to buy a moped for Rs 9,588. She has to pay it back in equal amounts every month for six months.

• How much will she have to pay every month? She asked her children to calculate. Her daughter did it this way
  500 + 500 + 500 + 90 + 8
  `6")"overline9588`
  – 3000
     6588
  – 3000
     3588
  – 3000
       588
   –  540
         48
      – 48
           X
• Her son started this way. Now you complete it.
  1000+
  `6")"overline9588`
  – 6000
  ________
  ________
  ________
  ________            

Will both of them get the same answer? Discuss.

Try to solve these using as few steps as you can.

• 4228 ÷ 4

Try to solve these using as few steps as you can

• 770 ÷ 22

Try to solve these using as few steps as you can.

• 9872 ÷ 8

Try to solve these using as few steps as you can.

• 672 ÷ 21

Try to solve these using as few steps as you can.

• 772 ÷ 7

Try to solve these using as few steps as you can

• 639 ÷ 13

976 children are going on a picnic. They will be taken in minibusses. If 25 children can go in one bus, how many buses do they need?

Two children have solved it. Check if they have made a mistake — correct it. Discuss

• 5 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 4
  `25")"overline976`
  – 125
     581
  – 250
     601
  – 250 
     351
  – 250
     101
  – 100 
        X
• 20 + 10 + 4 + 1
  `25")"overline976`
     – 500
       476
    – 250
      266
  –  125
     101
  – 100
        1

Isha has Rs 1000 with her. She wants to buy petrol. One litre of petrol costs Rs 47. How many litres can she buy?

Money with Isha = Rs 1000

Cost of 1litre = Rs 47

Litres of petrol she can buy = Rs 1000 ÷ Rs 47 =?

Isha can buy ______ litres of petrol.

Find out

If Isha comes to your city, how much petrol can she buy with the same money?

Children are happy today. They are celebrating Children’s Day. Each child will be given 4 coloured pencils from school. The school has got 969 pencils. To find out how many children can get pencils the teacher asks them to divide.

• Complete Iru s and Sreeni's way of division. What is the answer you get?

576 books are to be packed in boxes. If one box has 24 books, how many boxes are needed?

836 people are watching a movie in a hall. If the hall has 44 rows, how many people can sit in 1 row?

A gardener bought 458 apple trees. He wants to plant 15 trees in each row. How many rows can he plant? How many trees would be leftover?

Shyamli bought a battery. She read on it Life: 2000 hours. She uses it throughout the day and the night. How many days will the battery run?

A tank is full of 300 L of water. How much water will be filled in 25 tanks? If 15 buckets can be filled with one tank of water, how many buckets in all can be filled with the water in 25 tanks?

There are 28 laddoos in 1 kg. How many will be there in 12 kg? If 16 can be packed in 1 box, how many boxes are needed to pack all these laddoos?

There are 26 rooms in a school. Each room has 4 plants. If each plant needs 2 cups of water, how much water do we need for all the plants?

Each line gives a story. You have to choose the question which makes the best story problem. The first one is already marked.

• A shopkeeper has 50 boxes. There are 48 fruits in one box.
  Tick the one question which matches with the given problem.
  

  a)	How much will the shopkeeper pay in all?
  b)	How many fruits are there in all?	✓
  c)	How many more boxes will he need?

  Explain why (a) and (c) are not good choices.

Each line gives a story. You have to choose the question which makes the best story problem. The first one is already marked.

• 352 children from a school went on a camping trip. Each tent had a group of 4 children.
  

  a)	How many children did each tent have?
  b)	How many tents do they need?
  c)	How many children in all are in the school?

Each line gives a story. You have to choose the question which makes the best story problem. The first one is already marked.

• A shopkeeper has 204 eggs. He puts them in egg trays. Each tray has 12 eggs.
  

  a)	How many more eggs will he need?
  b)	How many fresh eggs does he sell?
  c)	How many egg trays does he need?

Each line gives a story. You have to choose the question which makes the best story problem. The first one is already marked.

• The cost of one book is Rs 47. Sonu buys 23 books.
  

  a)	How much money does she have?
  b)	How much money does she pay for the books?
  c)	What is the cost of 47 books?

Do these divisions. Check your results by multiplication.

• 438 ÷ 9

Do these divisions. Check your results by multiplication.

• 3480 ÷ 12

Do these divisions. Check your results by multiplication.

• 450 ÷ 7

Do these divisions. Check your results by multiplication.

• 900 ÷ 10

Do these divisions. Check your results by multiplication.

• 678 ÷ 6

Do these divisions. Check your results by multiplication.

• 2475 ÷ 11

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 21 × 16

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 15 × 7

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 93 × 2

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 17 × 5

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 10 × 10

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 26 × 26

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 77 × 10

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 50 × 10

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 11 × 11

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 59 × 7

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 31 × 19

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 85 × 30

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 64 × 42

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 3200 ÷ 40

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 19 × 3

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 248 ÷ 8

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 432 ÷ 18

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find

• 729 ÷ 9

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 825 ÷ 5

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 221 ÷ 13

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 576 ÷ 12

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• 288 ÷ 4

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 869 ÷ 11

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• 847 ÷ 7

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 981 ÷ 3

Solve the given sums and colour the answers in the grid given below. See what you find.

• 475 ÷ 19