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Find the Mistake — Two-Digit Multiplication is a free printable Grade 5 maths worksheet on catching a tens digit multiplied as if it were ones, aligned to Common Core standard 5.NBT.B.5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Find the Mistake — Two-Digit Multiplication

5.NBT.B.5

NameDate

Find the mistake and write the right answer.

1.Priya worked out 12 × 65 = 132. What is the right answer?
2.Freya worked out 87 × 78 = 1305. What is the right answer?
3.Elsie worked out 43 × 43 = 301. What is the right answer?
4.Elsie worked out 42 × 78 = 630. What is the right answer?
5.Ama worked out 37 × 45 = 333. What is the right answer?
6.Omar worked out 23 × 45 = 207. What is the right answer?
7.Freya worked out 82 × 57 = 984. What is the right answer?
8.Freya worked out 97 × 41 = 485. What is the right answer?

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Answer key — Find the Mistake — Two-Digit Multiplication

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.780
  2. 2.6786
  3. 3.1849
  4. 4.3276
  5. 5.1665
  6. 6.1035
  7. 7.4674
  8. 8.3977

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 5.NBT.B.5 of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.