a letter that represents an unknown number. For example: 23 x 3 = b
variable
84 / 2 = b
What is b equal to?
42
210 / 2 = n
105
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
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.
The answer in division
Quotient
12 x 5 + c = 77
What is c equal to?
17
498 / 4 = n
124 R 2
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
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
256 / 4 = 64
What is the vocabulary word for the 256, or the first number in a division equation
dividend
(13 + 5) x (12 +12) = a
What is a equal to?
432
879 / 3 = n
293
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.
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.
The number we are dividing by. For example:
256 / 4 = 64
Divisor
(3 x v) + (6 + 3) = 12
What is v equal to?
1
9,834 / 5
1,966 R 4
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?
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.
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
(12 x 3) + (13 x 2) + (7 x 8) = d
What is d equal to?
118
Estimate to solve for reasonableness:
Please write the estimated equation and solve it
577 / 8 = n
560 / 8 = 70
About 70
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)
There are 83 bags of chips on each shelf