Interpreting Remainders 1
A teacher has 248 pencils to share equally among 6 classrooms. How many pencils does each classroom get?
41 pencils
Blue Springs has 1,134 players signed up to play flag football. If they put them on teams of 9, how many teams will be needed for all of the players to be on a team?
126 teams
A library has 984 books. The librarian needs to place them evenly on 7 shelves. How many books will be on each shelf?
140 books
A chef has 1,502 cookies to put on trays. Each tray holds 8 cookies. How many full trays can be filled?
187 full trays
A farmer wants to plant 242 sunflowers. He wants to have 9 sunflowers in each row. How many sunflowers will in the partially full row?
8 sunflowers
A teacher has 287 students and needs to put them in groups of 6. How many more students are needed to make one more full group?
1 more student
The school librarian has 926 bookmarks to give away. Each student gets 9 bookmarks. How many bookmarks will be leftover?
8 bookmarks
A farmer picks 735 apples and packs them equally into 8 baskets. How many apples go in each basket?
91 apples
A school club collected cans for a food drive. They collect 2,418 canned goods and put them into crates that held 7 cans. How many more cans do they need to fill the last crate?
4 cans
A bakery made 1,256 cookies and wants to place them equally in 9 jars. How many cookies go into each jar?
139 cookies
A delivery company needs to ship 1,209 boxes using trucks that hold 6 boxes each. How many trucks will they need for all the boxes to fit?
202 trucks
There are 1,432 marbles placed into bags holding 7 marbles each. How many marbles won't fit in the bags?
4 marbles will not fit
There are 156 people going on a city tour. Each bus can carry 9 people. How many buses are needed for the tour?
18 buses
There are 372 chairs set up outside for a concert. After the concert, all the chairs will be put away on racks that hold 8 chairs each. How many racks are needed for all the chairs to fit? How many chairs will be on the last rack?
47 racks
4 chairs
The coach of the tennis team needs to order tennis balls for the season. He needs 452 balls. There are 7 balls in each can. How many cans of balls should the coach order?
65 cans
A movie theater has rows that seat 8 people. If 452 people attend a movie, how many rows are needed for everyone to have a seat?
57 rows
There are 1,365 beads used to make necklaces, with 8 beads per necklace. How many more beads are needed to make one more complete necklace?
3 more beads
A teacher orders 1,375 notebooks for her school. Each box holds 6 notebooks. How many boxes are needed to hold all the notebooks?
230 boxes
A farmer pours 864 liters of juice into 7 barrels. How many liters go into each barrel?
123 3/7 liters
3,875 people need to take the elevator to the top of a skyscraper. The elevator can hold 9 people at a time. How many trips does the elevator need to make? How many people will be on the elevator for last trip?
431 trips
5 people will be on the last trip