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100

1/8 + 2/10

13/40

100

Mrs. Hampton has 6 cats and wants each cat to have the same amount of food.  She has 16 cans of cat food.  How many cans of cat food will each cat get?

2 4/6 or 2 2/3 cans of catfood.

100

A basketball team has 10 members.  The team orders 5 foot long subs to share equally after the game.  Write two expressions that represent how much of the sub each team member will get.

5/10  and 5 division sign 10

100

3/9   +   2/3

9/9 or 1

100

Sally has 6 dogs and 15 cups of dog food.  How many cups will each dog get?

15/6 = 2 3/6 =  2 1/2 cups of dog food

200

3/7 + 3/4

1 5/28

200

Maddie has 8 friends and 5 cupcakes.  She would like to share these cupcakes equally with her friends and not herself.  How many cupcakes will each friend get? 

Each friend will get 5/8 of a cupcake.

200

A teacher has 15 pencils.  She wants to share them equally with 5 of her students.  Write two expressions that represent how many pencils each student will get.

15/5     15 division sign  5

200

7/12 + 2/6

11/12

200

Sally has 30 liters of lemonade and 4 containers.  If she equally divides the liters into the 4 containers, how many liters are in each container?

30/4 = 7 2/4 liters =  7 1/2 liters

300

6/9 - 1/2

3/18

300

Dennis has 8 pounds of birdseed and divides them evenly into 4 bird feeders.  Dennis then finds more birdseed and adds 3/4 pounds to each feeder.  How many pounds are in each feeder?

2 7/20 pounds of birdseed are in each feeder.

300

There are 23 kids in a second grade class.  Their teacher brings them 46 cookies to share equally.  Write two expressions that represent how many cookies each student will get.

46/23      46 division sign 23

300

3  5/9   -    2   2/4

1  2/36   or  1  1/18

300

Mary has 16 cookies and wants to divide them equally between 8 people.  How many cookies does each person get?

16/8  =   2 cookies

400

7/8 - 3/4

1/8

400

12 fifth grade students share 5 liters of milk equally.  Then Mrs. Hampton gives each of them another 1/3 liter of milk.  How many total liters of milk does each fifth grade student have to drink?

Each fifth grade student as 9/12 liter of a milk to drink?

400

Mr. White awards fifth grade 30 extra minutes of recess to be shared equally among the three fifth grade classrooms.  Write two expressions that represent how many extra minutes each class will receive.

30/3        Thirty division sign 3

400

8 4/5   -   6   2/10

2  6/10 or  2  3/5

400

32 people are waiting for 64 White Sox tickets to be released.  If the people equally share the tickets, how many tickets will each person get?

64/32  =  2 tickets each

500

3/4 +  6/24

1

500

Mr. White brings 16 candy bars to school.  He gives 5 teachers equal amounts of candy bars.  Mrs. Hampton is one of the lucky ones and gets her equal share.  Mrs. Hampton already had 1/2 of a candy bar.  How many candy bars does she have now?

Mrs. Hampton has 3 7/10 candy bars!

500

Maddie and five friends want to equally share 6 donuts.  Write two expressions that represent how many donuts Maddie and friends will get.  

6/6        6 division sign 6

500

2   1/6   - 1   5/8

13/24

500

288 cats are going to sleep.  There are 32 cat beds available.  How many cats will sleeping in each bed if they share them equally?

288/32  =   9

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