Dividing Whole Numbers

Compatible Numbers

100

What is 522 divided by 6?

90

200

What is 6,285 divided 89?

70

300

Lauren bought a televison that cost $805. She plans to make equal payments of $38 each month until the televison is paid in full. About how many payments will Lauren make? 

A. 15 B. 20 C. 30 D. 38

B. 20

400

How would you round the following division problem? 

293 divided by 28

300 divided by 30

500

Miss Joja plans to sell tote bags at the art festival for $33 each. She will need to make $265 to pay the rent for the space at the festival. About how many tote bags will she need to sell to pay the rent?

9

Divide

100

What is 680 divided by 8?

85

200

What is 8,808 divided by 42?

209 r30

300

What is 504 divided by 36? 

14

400

An airplane has 416 seats arranged in 52 rows. If there is the same number of seats in each row, how many seats are in one row? 

A. 21,632 B. 364 C. 8 D. 6

C. 8

500

On a standard week-long space shuttle flight, 175 servings of fresh food are shared equally among 7 crewmembers. How many servings of fresh food does each crewmember receive?

25 servings

This and That

100

What is the vocabulary word for the number that is INSIDE the division symbol? 

dividend

200

A book publishing company is shipping an order of 300 books. The books are packaged in boxes that each can hold 24 books. How many boxes are needed to ship the order of books?  A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13

D. 13

300

The local concert hall has 48 concerts scheduled this season. Each concert has the same amount of tickets available for sale. There is a total of 4,560 tickets. How many tickets are available for each concert? A. 1,140 B. 950 C. 105 D. 95

D. 95

400

How do you write this quotient with a fraction remainder in simplest terms?

30 divided by 4 

7 and 1/2 or 7 and a half

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!! 

Claudia estimates that the first digit in the quotient of 2,898 divided by 88 starts in the hundreds place. Is she right or wrong? 

She is wrong - the number starts in the tens place. 

Quotient Madness

100

What is 96 divided by 12? 

8

200

Caleb needs to solve the problem 2,406 divided by 6. In what place is the first digit of the quotient for the problem 2,406 divided by 6? A. ones B. tens C. hundreds D. thousands

C. hundreds

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!! 

Jessie is saving for for a trip. He needs $3,060. If the trip is 36 weeks away, how much money should Jessie save each week?

$85 per week.

400

What is a way that you can check your answer for a division problem by multiplying? (Use vocabulary in your answer.)

You can multiply the divisor by the quotient to get the dividend.

500

The number of the children at the library was 3 times the number of adults. The total number of people at the library was 48. How many children were at the library? A. 12 B. 28 C. 32 D. 36

D. 36

Problem Solving Frenzy!

100

Find the missing number: 

128 divided by n = 8

n=16

200

Kate made 200 cookies for a party. She distributes them to 16 people at the event. How many cookies can each person get? (Hint: Your answer has a fraction)

11.5 or 11 and a half cookies

300

Ricardo's dog weighs 6 times as much as his cat. The total weight of his two pets is 98 pounds. How much does Ricardo's dog weigh?

84 pounds

400

Mr. Stephens needs to haul 1,518 tons of rock from a construction site. His dump truck can hold 26 tons per load. How many tons will Mr. Stephens need to haul in the last lad to move all of the rock? 

A. 10 B. 58 C. 68 D. 1,492

A. 10

500

A local orange grower processes 2,330 oranges from his grove this year. the oranges are packaged in crates taht each hold 96 oranges. All but one crate is full. How many oranges are in that last crate? 

 A. 24 B. 25 C. 26 D. 27

C. 26