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Interpreting Remainders
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Division Word Problems
FUN BONUS CARDS
100

Select the two equations that correctly use compatible numbers to estimate the quotient of 2,283÷622 

B. 1,800÷60=30

D. 2,400÷60=40

100

Sabeena buys 162 inches of ribbon for wrapping presents. She uses 25 inches of ribbon to make a bow for each present. What is the greatest number of bows Sabeena can make?

6

100

481 ÷ 37 

13

100

An art teacher gives 2,532 crayons to the students who take his class. He gives 12 crayons to each student.

How many students take his art class? Write an equation. 

211 students

2,532 / 12 = 211

100

What is the only even prime number?

2

200

A baker made 742 cupcakes in 23 days. What is a reasonable estimate of the number of cupcakes the baker made each day?

30

200

Dakota has 133 baseball cards. She wants to put them in an album that has 16 pages.

Dakota can put baseball____cards on each page.

She will have _____cards on the last page.

Dakota can put baseball 8 cards on each page.

She will have 5 cards on the last page.

200

BONUS 4,872÷6

812

200

There are 986 campers who signed up for summer camp. The campers are placed into 29 equal groups.

How many campers are in each group? Write an equation.

986 / 29 = 34

200

I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

Seven (S E V E N)

300

Brenden collected 975 bottle caps for a school fundraiser over 20 days. He estimated that he collected about 50 bottle caps each day. Was Brenden’s estimate reasonable?

A. Yes, because 975 is close to 1,000 and 1,000÷20=50

300

A farmer collected 1,957 eggs from her chickens. She puts them into cartons that each hold 48 eggs. How many cartons will the farmer need to hold all of the eggs she collected?

41 Cartons

300

BONUS 9,156÷7

1,308

300

A school earned $2,604 selling tickets to a fundraising event. If each ticket cost $14, how many tickets were sold?

186 tickets

300

Which weighs more: a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?

neither they weigh the same

400

BONUS

A school collected 2,875 cans for a recycling project. The cans will be packed equally into 24 boxes. What is the fewest number of boxes needed to hold all the cans?

119 R 19 = 120 Cans

400

892 ÷ 59 

15 R7

400

The area of a playground measures 375 square yards. If the length of the playground is 15 yards, what is its width in yards?

25 YARDS

400

The more of it you take away, the bigger it gets. What is it?

Hole

500

7,014 ÷ 72

97 R30

500

BONUS A concert venue arranged 2,772 chairs equally into 28 sections. How many chairs were placed in each section?

99 Chairs

500

Grandpa, two fathers, and two sons went to the movie theater together. They only bought three tickets, but everyone got their own seat. How?

There were only three people: a grandfather, a father, and a grandson.

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