Division Vocabulary
This number is what we divide by or how many groups will be divided into during the problem.
What is the divisor?
The Bluegrass Runners group runs a total of 240 miles each week. The members of the group run 6 days per week. How many miles do the members run each day?
What is 40 miles each day?
261 divided by 2 = ?
What is 130 Remainder 1?
At a potato chip factory, there were 90 minutes working each machine able to produce 95 chips a minute. If this is enough potato chips to fill 5 shipping boxes, how many chips are there per box?
What is 1,710 chips per box?
When we have our answer from a division problem that is even, but we have something leftover, what is that called?
What is a Reminder?
Miss Gracia has 2,340 dairy cows. She places the same number of cows into her 9 pens. How many cows are in each pen?
What is 260 cows?
Larissa is trying to earn $119 for some new art supplies. If she charges 3 dollars to rake leaves from a yard, how many yards will she have to rake to earn the money?
What is 40 yards? Or what is 39 R2 yards? (You had to interpret the remainder for this problem)
A king size candy bar costs $2 with each candy bar having 1,855 calorie. If you bought 2 candy bars and took 7 days eating them (eating the same amount of each day) how many calories would you consume a day?
What is 530 calories?
84 x 79
What is 6,636?
Melissa purchased a new computer for her home. The computer cost $3,395. She would like to make 5 equal payments to pay off the computer. How much will each payment be?
What is $679.
A new video game console needs five computer chips. If a machine can create four hundred sixty-seven chips a day, then how many video game consoles can be created in one day?
What is 93 consoles with 2 computer chips left over. (93 R2)
Steve and Sandy were comparing their hallo candy. Steve received 3 times as much candy as Sandy receive. Steve then split his candy evenly into 8 piles to eat later. If Sandy received 24 ounces of candy, how many ounces of candy would be in each of Steve’s piles?
What is 9 ounces?
Marty put 62 brownies on 5 plates. She put the same number of brownies on each plate. How many brownies will there be on each plate? Will there be any leftover? (Hint: Answer both questions)
What is 12 brownies on each plate. Yes there will be 2 brownies left over.
Mrs. Wilkins has tickets to pass out to all of the classrooms for a program. She has 165 flyers and she needs to pass out an equal amount to 9 classrooms. Solve to find out how many each classroom would receive.
What is 18 flyers for each classroom. 3 flyers will be leftover. (18 R3)
Ashley was trying to save up $475. At her job she made $14 an hour and she worked 29 hours a week. After paying for food and other expense, she ended up saving 1/7 of her weeks earnings. How much money did she save up each week?
What is $58 a week?
A lunch at Qdoba costs $8. What will be the cost of a lunch for 2,391 teachers?
What is $19,128.
All of these are division clue words in word problems EXCEPT: A. Equally B. Times C. Quotient D. Divided By
What is Times?
5th grade is going on a field trip to Louisville, Kentucky. There are 139 boys going and 84 girls going. There needs to be a chaperone for each group of 6 children. How many chaperones will need to go on the field trip so that ever student is in a group?
What is 38 chaperones. (The answer is 37 Remainder 1, 1 student can't be left alone, therefore they will need 38 chaperones).
A restaurant owner bought 8 boxes of disposable cups for $138, with each box containing 4,820 cups. If he wanted to divvy up the cups among his 5 restaurants, how many cups should each store get?
What is 7,712 cups?
43,080 divided by 3
What is 14,360?