Estimating Quotient
Interpreting Remainders
Word Problems
100
Estimate this quotient 

122 divided by 6 =

About 20 

100

You have 25 cookies. You want to pack them into bags of 6 cookies each to sell at a bake sale. How many full bags can you sell?

4 bags 

100

Westside School District has 3,465 elementary students enrolled. The school district wants the same number of students enrolled evenly among its 5 elementary schools.

How many students will be in each elementary school?

693 students 

200

Jayla has 291 balloons. She put the same number of balloon into 3 groups. What is the best estimate of the number of balloons in each group? 

100 balloons

200

Mrs. Smith had 312 pencils to share amongst her 5 classes. How many pencils will she have left if the pencils were divided evenly? 

Mrs. Smith will have 2 pencils left.

200


A bakery made 2,560 cookies and wants to place them equally into 8 containers. Which equation can be used to find the number of cookies in each container?



a. 8 ÷ 2,560 = c


b. 2,560 ÷ 8 = c

c. 2,560 × 8 = c

d. 2,560 + 8 = c


b 2,560 ÷ 8 = c

300

A bakery recieved a shipment of 437 apples. If it takes 4 apples to make one pie, about how many pies to the nearest, 10 can the bakery make?  

110 apple pies

300

If a bag of 175 gummy bears were split between 8 students in class. How many would each student get? 

21 gummy bears 

300

Jayden spent 2,574 dollars on a television. He is able to split the cost over 6 equal monthly payments. What is the price of each payment 

$429 each month 

400

Liam swam a total of 173 minutes during 3 days. He swam the same number of minutes each day. Which of the following is the best estimate of the number of minutes Jorge swam each day?

60 Minutes

400

Chase has 158 action figures to put in cases. Each case can hold 8 action figures. How many cases will Chase need to hold all of his action figures?

20 cases

400

Mr. Scott picked 625 apples. He put the apples into 5 containers. Each container has the same number of apples in it. 

Create an equation that could be used to show how many apples are in each container. 

625 divided by 5 = 

500

The friends at a video arcade wins 248 tickets. They decided to share the tickets equally. About how many tickets will each friend get? 

About 80 tickets each 

500
Maria has 52 pictures of her family and 67 pictures of her friends to put into a photo album. If she put 8 photos on each page how many pages for the photo album will she need? 

15 pages

500

A large envelope contains only $5 bills. The total value of the $5 bills is $2,435. How many $5 bills are in this envelope? 

487 

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