I need help writing a multiplication story with the factors 2 and 5.

He/she needs a multiplication story, not a division story.

5 classmates each have 2 pencils. How many pencils do they have in all?
5 * 2 = 10 pencils

There are all kinds of things you can write about --

-- number of pencils a student has that needs to be divided into groups for each foursome of students in the class

-- number of apples a customer is buying and how s/he will divide them up and why

etc., etc.

Use your imagination. You'll think of something.

thank u very much writeacher i was at a standstill because i wrote so many already lol.

Sure! To write a multiplication story with the factors 2 and 5, you can think of a real-life situation that involves groups or sets of objects.

One way to approach this is to imagine a scenario where there are 2 groups of 5 objects each. For example, you can think of a farmer who has 2 baskets, and each basket contains 5 apples.

Here's a multiplication story based on this scenario:

"There is a farmer who has 2 baskets. In each basket, there are 5 ripe apples. How many apples does the farmer have in total?"

To find the answer, you can multiply the two factors: 2 x 5 = 10. Therefore, the farmer has a total of 10 apples.

In this multiplication story, the factor 2 represents the number of baskets, and the factor 5 represents the number of apples in each basket. By multiplying these two factors together, you find the total number of apples the farmer has.