Dividing Decimal Patterns
Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers
Word Problems
Challenge Questions
100

Find the quotient: 45.3÷10.

4.53

100

8.4 ÷ 4

2.1

100

Three friends split a $15.75 bag of candy evenly. How much did each person pay?

5.25

100

Find the quotient: 1.015 ÷ 7

0.145

200

Find the quotient: 6.7 ÷ 100

0.067

200

15.6 ÷ 3

5.2

200

A 10-foot long piece of wood is cut into 100 equal smaller pieces. How long is each piece in feet?

0.1 foot

200

A 15-foot piece of ribbon costs 28.35. What is the cost per foot?

1.89

300

Find the quotient: 328 ÷ 1,000

0.328

300

2.58 ÷ 6

0.43

300

A rope is 12.36 meters long. If it is cut into 4 equal pieces, how long is each piece?

3.09 meters

300

A science club has a 47.5-gram sample. If they split it evenly among 25 microscopes, how many grams of the sample does each microscope receive?

1.9 grams

400

Describe the pattern: When you divide a number by a power of ten, the decimal point moves one place to the ______ for each zero in the divisor.

Left

400

47.2 ÷ 8

5.9

400

A baker uses 4.2 kilograms of flour to make 6 identical cakes. How much flour is in one cake?

0.7 kilograms

400

Find the quotient: 3.000 ÷ 8

0.375

500

Find the missing number in the equation: 29.1 ÷ ____ =0.0291.

1,000

500

0.95 ÷ 5 

0.19

500

A student reads 14.7 pages in 7 minutes. If they read at a constant rate, how many pages did they read per minute?

2.1 pages per minute

500

What whole number makes the equation true?

18.42 ÷ ____ = 3.07

6

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