Vocabulary
Solving for variable
Finding quotients and remainders
1 step word problems
multistep word problems
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a letter that represents an unknown number. For example: 23 x 3 = b 

variable

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84 / 2 = b 

What is b equal to? 

42

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210 / 2 = n 

105

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Kenny likes to collect coins and place them in a coin book. He has 936 total coins and places 4 coins on each page. How many pages will Kenny fill? 

Kenny will fill 234 pages

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There are 5 boxes of pencils. There are 6 times more boxes of crayons than there are pencils. There are 3 more boxes of chalk than crayons. How many boxes of pencils, crayons and chalk are there in total? 

There are 68 total boxes of pencils, crayons and chalk in all. 

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The answer in division

Quotient 

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12 x 5 + c = 77 

What is c equal to? 

17

200

498 / 4 = 

124 R 2

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Four friends went to dinner and spent $457 total. If they split the bill evenly, how much will each friend pay? 

Each friend will pay $114.25 

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Ms. McKeveny's class is going to Six Flags. Each student brings 1 parent with them. If they plan to carpool and each car can fit 4 people, how many cars are going to be needed to drive everyone? 

They will need 8 cars 

( 7 R 2) Bump up remainder 

300

256 / 4 = 64 

What is the vocabulary word for the 256, or the first number in a division equation

dividend 

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(13 + 5) x (12 +12) = a

What is a equal to? 

432

300

879 / 3 = n

293

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Chase bought 4 plane tickets for his mom, brother, aunt and himself to fly to Italy. If he spent $2,550, about how much money did each plane ticket cost? 

Each ticket cost about $600.

300

Over the summer Sean biked and ran a lot. Sean rode his bike 8 miles each day for a total of 57 days. He also ran 50 total miles over the summer. How many miles did Sean bike and run all together? 

Sean ran and biked a total of 506 miles over the summer. 

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The number we are dividing by. For example:

256 / 4 = 64

Divisor 

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(3 x v) + (6 + 3) = 12 

What is v equal to?

1

400

9,834 / 5

1,966 R 4

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Maria is helping her mom plant flowers in the garden. Her mom has 723 flowers to plant in 5 rows. How many flowers will go in each row? How many will be left over? 

There will be 144 flowers in each row, with 3 left over.
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Sam is buying essentials for his upcoming trip to Portugal. He plans to split all his expenses between his mom, cousin and himself. He buys 3 suitcases, which each cost $20, and spent $156 on groceries. How much will each person spend? 

Each person will spend $72.

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an orderly arrangement in rows and columns used in multiplication and division to show how multiplication can be shown as repeated addition and division can be shown as fair shares.


array

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(12 x 3) + (13 x 2) + (7 x 8) = d

What is d equal to?

118

500

Estimate to solve for reasonableness: 

Please write the estimated equation and solve it

577 / 8 =

560 / 8 = 70

About 70 

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Gianna is making a bookcase to hold all her Harry Potter books. She has a piece of wood that measures 74 feet long. She needs to cut equal pieces of wood which will measure 9 feet long each. How many pieces of wood can Gianna cut? 

Gianna can cut 8 pieces of wood. 

(drop our remainder) 

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A grocery store manager receives 460 bags of chips. He puts 45 on the shelf in the front of the store. He then arranges the rest equally into 5 shelves. How many bags of chips are on each shelf? 



There are 83 bags of chips on each shelf

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