Vocabulary
What is the answer to a division problem called? What is the answer to a multiplication problem called?
A division answer is called the quotient.
A multiplication answer is called the product.
Find the product of 5 and 18.
5 x 18 = (5 x 10) + (5 x 8)
50 + 40
90
Find the quotient: 73/6
73/6 = 12 R1
Mark has 15 stickers. Kati has 6 times as many stickers as Mark. How many stickers does Kati have?
6 x 15 = (6 x 10) + (6 x 5)
60 + 30
90
Kati has 90 stickers.
Eva buys 4 packs of pencils. Each pack has 12 pencils. She goes to school and gives all of her pencils to her 8 best friends. How many pencils will each friend get if they share them equally?
Step 1: 4 x 12 = 48
Step 2: 48/8 = 6
Each friend will get 6 pencils.
108/9 = 12
In this equation, what number is the divisor and what number is the dividend.
divisor = 9
dividend = 108
What is 28 x 40
28 x 40 = (20 x 40) + (8 x 40)
800 + 320
1,120
What is 241/7?
34 R3
Jasper wants to travel to 4 states every year. How many years would it take him to see all 50 states?
50/4 = 12 R2
It would take him 13 years.
Freya goes to the store to buy soda for a party. She buys 14 six-packs of soda. If she invites 40 people to her party and they share the soda equally, how many cans will be left over?
Step 1: 6 x 14 = 84
Step 2: 84/40 = 2 R4
There will be 4 cans left over.
Show how the distributive property can be used to solve 4 x 18
4 x 18 = (4 x 10) + (4 x 8)
40 + 32
72
What is 145 x 7?
145 x 7 = (100 x 7) + (40 x 7) + (5 x 7)
700 + 280 + 35
1,015
Ivan has 155 bananas. He puts them in 9 equal piles. How many bananas are left over?
155/9 = 17 R2
Ivan has 2 bananas left over.
There 57 students going on a field trip. Each van can hold 9 people. How many vans will they need to get all the kids to the field trip?
57/9 = 6 R3
They will need 7 vans.
Jasper wants to travel to all 196 countries. He plans to visit 3 countries every year. If he starts his travels at age 8, how old will he be when he finally visits every country in the world?
Step 1: 196/3 = 65 R1
It would take him 66 years to see every country.
Step 2: 66 + 8 = 74
He will be 74 years old.
Use the words divisor, dividend, and quotient to show how you can check your answer to a division problem using multiplication.
quotient x divisor = dividend
or divisor x quotient = dividend
Jack has 12 packs of markers. Each pack has 24 markers in it. How many markers are there in all?
12 x 24 = (12 x 20) + (12 x 4)
240 + 48
288
There are 288 markers in all.
Ben buys 330 video games for Christmas presents. He wants to give them all to 5 friends. If he gives each kid the same amount of video games, how many will each kid get?
330/5 = 66
Each kid will get 66 video games.
There are 20 Bokoboblens. They have 747 arrows. If they share them evenly, how many arrows will be leftover?
747/20 = 37 R7
There will be 7 arrows leftover.
The fourth graders of Willamette are picking up trash at the beach. There are 110 kids in fourth grade. They are divided into 5 groups. If each kid in the group picks up 20 pounds of garbage, how many pounds will each group pick up in total?
Step 1: 110/5 = 22
Step 2: 22 x 20 = 440 pounds
Each group will pick up 440 pounds.
Use the Partial Quotient Method to solve 156/9
Method must be shown.
156/9 = 17 R3
Mike is making 46 mystery bags for a party. He went to store to buy toys for the mystery bags. While at the store, he bought himself 2 drinks. When he got home, he put 20 toys in each bag. He used all the toys he bought. How many toys did he buy?
46 x 20 = (40 x 20) + (6 x 20)
800 + 120
920
He bought 920 toys.
Jessica spends $292 for 8 tickets to the Blazer game. How much money did each ticket cost?
292/8 = 36 R4
Each ticket cost $36.50
Henrietta wants to give 8 stickers to each of her 30 classmates. Stickers come in packages of 12. How many packages will she need to buy so that each friend can get 8 stickers?
Step 1: 8 x 30 = 240
Step 2: 240/12 = 20
She would need to buy 20 packages of stickers.
Fifth grade has a goal of raising $2,000 for a field trip. There are 48 fifth graders and each kid raises $30. How much more money will they need to raise?
Step 1: 48 x 30 = 1,440
Step 2: 2,000 - 1,440 = 560
They need to raise $560 more dollars.