Vocabulary
The answer to a division problem
quotient
360 divided by 40
9
180 divided by 15
12
570 divided by 30
19
Paula wants to divide 480 tomatoes equally among 80 baskets. How many tomatoes will Paula put in each basket?
6
When dividing, what is the number that is left over called
remainder
2,700 divided by 90
30
217 divided by 31
7
986 divided by 29
34
Angelo is training for a long-distance bicycle ride. He travels 15 miles each hour. How many hours will it take him to ride 210 miles?
14
the number that comes first in your division problem (inside your house)
dividend
5,600 divided by 800
130 divided by 26
5
5,520 divided by 40
138
A 969-acre wildlife preserve has 19 cheetahs. About how many acres does each cheetah have to itself, if each cheetah roams the same number of acres?
51
the number that come second in your division problem (what you are dividing by)
divisor
72,000 divided by 80
900
270 divided by 18
15
612 divided by 66
9 R18
At an automobile plant, each car is inspected by 34 different workers before it is shipped to a dealer. One day, workers performed 9,690 inspections. How many cars were shipped?
285
the numbers that you add together in a division problem
partial quotients
3,000 divided by 50
60
351 divided by 27
13
8,168 divided by 26
314 R4
The booster club picked 1,370 apples. They plan to sell bags of apples with 15 apples in each bag. How many bags can they make? How many apples will be left over?
91 R5