Dividing Using the Zeroes Trick
28,000 ÷ 7 =
4,000
207 ÷ 9 =
23
8,036 ÷ 5 =
1,607 r 1
There are 78 students in an engineering club. If the sponsor puts 4 students in each group, how many students will not be in a group?
2 students
A school storeroom has 246 pencils in one box and 197 pencils in another box. All of the pencils will be distributed equally to 9 classes. How many pencils will each class receive?
246 + 197 = 443
443 ÷ 9 = 49 r 2
49 pencils
24,000 ÷ 30 =
800
647 ÷ 4 =
161 r 3
3,358 ÷ 7 =
479 r 5
A bakery has 192 muffins ready to place into boxes. The baker puts an equal number of muffins into 8 boxes. How many muffins are in each box?
24 muffins
A florist has 671 flowers. She uses 82 flowers in a bouquets. The rest will be put in vases. Each vase can hold 8 flowers. How many vases will the florist need for the rest of the flowers?
671 - 82 = 589
589 ÷ 8 = 73 r 6
74 vases for all flowers
2,000 ÷ 5 =
400
446 ÷ 8 =
55 r 6
2,389 ÷ 6 =
398 r 1
A school is holding a bake sale in the gym. There are 382 fruit bars available for sale. If the PTO plans to place about the same number of fruit bars on each of 9 tables, how many fruit bars will be placed on each table?
42 bars
Landon has 156 cards in one collector’s book and 256 cards in another collector’s book. There are 9 cards on each page of the books. How many pages has he filled in the books?
156 + 256 = 412
412 ÷ 9 = 45 r 7
45 pages
4,900 ÷ 70 =
70
237 ÷ 6 =
39 r 3
4,791 ÷ 8 = ?
598 r 7
Jillian has 307 toy cars to place into some boxes. She can fit 8 toy cars into each box. What is the fewest number of boxes she needs in order to fit all the toy cars into boxes?
39 boxes
Rachel is putting toys into boxes. She can put 9 toys in each box. He has 681 toys, but she wants to keep 17 toys for herself. How many boxes can she fill with toys?
681 - 17 = 664
664 ÷ 9 = 73 r 7
73 boxes
10,800 ÷ 9 =
1,200
780 ÷ 7 =
111 r 3
1,620 ÷ 9 =
180
Diana has 429 photos to put in a photo album. She can fit 6 photos on a page. How many pages will she need in order to fit all the photos in the album?
72 pages
A dinner theater has a bus drop off 173 customers. Another 63 customers arrive by car. The dinner theater seats 6 customers per table. How many tables will the dinner theater need to seat all the customers?
173 + 63 = 236
236 ÷ 6 = 39 r 2
40 tables