Word problems
A bakery made 648 cookies. They want to pack them into boxes, with 12 cookies in each box. How many boxes can they fill?
648 ÷ 12 = 54 boxes
398 ÷ 8 ≈
400 ÷ 8 = 50
What is the result of a division problem? (What do you call the answer?)
quotient
576/18
32
!!Triple Jeopardy!!
12,582 ÷ 25 = ?
Write remainder as a decimal
503.28
There are 1,236 books that need to be placed on 6 shelves equally. How many books will go on each shelf?
1,236 ÷ 6 = 206 books per shelf
721 ÷ 9 ≈
720 ÷ 9 = 80
96 divide 8
798/14
57
35,265 ÷ 35 = ?
1,007 R 20
A school is taking a field trip. There are 873 students and each bus holds 29 students. How many buses are needed?
873 ÷ 29 = 30 buses with 3 students left over
589 ÷ 6 ≈
600 ÷ 6 = 100
134 divide 6 =
22 R 2
907/29
31 R7
4,256 ÷ 5 = ?
Write remainder as a fraction
851 2/5
A farmer harvested 2,480 apples. He wants to pack them in crates, with 40 apples per crate. How many crates will he need?
2,480 ÷ 40 = 62 crates
1,982 ÷ 4 ≈
2,000 ÷ 4 = 500
1,243 divide 4 =
310 R 3
4212/24
175 R 12
42,562 ÷ 7 = ?
Round to the nearest hundredth
6080.29
A factory produced 9,450 toy cars. They are packaged equally into 25 boxes. How many toy cars are in each box?
9,450 ÷ 25 = 378 toy cars per box
3,147 ÷ 7 ≈
3,150 ÷ 7 = 450
10,528 divide 15 =
701 R 13
5796/27
214
A factory has 945,823 crackers to put into boxes. If 56 crackers go into each box, how many boxes will be needed?
16,890