Estimation
A local bakery made 354 cookies. They want to place them into packages of 9 cookies each. About how many packages can they create?
40
An elementary school principal purchased a pack of 576 pencils to distribute equally among 6 fourth-grade classrooms. How many pencils will each classroom receive?
96
A school is taking 135 fourth-graders on a field trip. Each van can hold 8 students. How many vans do they need to take all the students?
17
A movie theater sold 2,835 tickets across 5 identical weekend showtimes. How many tickets were sold for each showtime?
567
Marcus had 120 baseball cards. He divided the cards equally among his 4 friends. Write an equation using c to find how many cards each friend received.
c = 120 ÷ 4
A school district purchased 2,385 chapter books to divide equally among 6 elementary schools. About how many books will each school receive?
400
A local bakery made 837 sugar cookies for a weekend festival. The bakers packed the cookies evenly into 9 large display boxes. How many cookies were placed in each box?
93
A baker has 250 cookies and packs them into boxes of 6. How many full boxes of cookies can the baker make?
41
An animal shelter has 1,248 dog treats to share equally among 4 rescue dogs. How many treats does each dog get?
312
A school gym ordered 1,200 tennis balls. The balls arrived packed equally into 4 large boxes. Draw a strip diagram using b to find how many tennis balls were in each box.
Strip Diagram: A long bar labeled 1,200 total. The bar is divided into 4 equal sections, with each section labeled b.
A sports arena has 4,118 seats divided evenly into 8 equal sections. About how many seats are in each section?
500
A state park trail maintenance crew received a shipment of 1,456 layout stakes. The crew organized the stakes evenly into 4 storage bins. How many stakes did they put in each bin?
364
A soccer coach has 183 practice cones. She distributes them equally among 4 teams and keeps the leftovers for herself. How many cones does the coach keep?
3
A school library received 3,528 new books and placed them equally onto 9 different bookshelves. How many books are on each shelf?
392
A farmer harvested 1,200 potatoes and sorted them equally into 6 sacks. He took one sack and distributed the potatoes equally among 4 local food banks. Write an equation using p to find how many potatoes each food bank received.
p = 1,200 ÷ 6 ÷ 4
A community center raised $5,390 to be distributed equally among 9 local families to help buy groceries. About how much money will each family receive?
600
An online retail warehouse needs to ship 3,185 holiday ornaments. If they split the ornaments equally among 7 delivery trucks, how many ornaments will be loaded onto each truck?
455
An online store received 2 orders of 345 stickers each. They pack the total number of stickers into boxes that hold 8 stickers each. How many boxes will they need to ship all of the stickers?
87
A farmer harvested 4,312 apples and packed them into 8 baskets with the exact same number of apples in each basket. How many apples are in each basket?
539
A juice company manufactured 3,500 bottles of lemonade. They packed the bottles equally into 7 large delivery trucks. Draw a strip diagram to represent the problem using t to find the number of bottles loaded onto each truck.
Strip Diagram: A long bar labeled 3,500 total. The bar is divided into 7 equal sections, with each individual section labeled t.
A manufacturer packed 1,184 juice boxes into large crates. Each crate holds exactly 3 juice boxes. About how many crates can the manufacturer fill?
400
A youth sports league bought a bulk container of 4,320 water balloons for their end-of-season party. They divided the balloons equally into 8 large buckets. How many water balloons are in each bucket?
540
A local fundraiser collected $4,500 on Friday and $3,225 on Saturday. They want to split the total money evenly to buy $9 gift cards for families in need. What is the maximum number of gift cards they can buy?
858
A crayon factory packed 2,415 crayons into 7 equal storage bins. How many crayons are in each bin?
345
A factory produced 400 toy cars and packed them equally into 8 large boxes. A toy store bought one of these boxes and put the cars equally onto 5 shelves. Write an equation using s to find how many cars are on each shelf.
s = 400 ÷ 8 ÷ 5