Estimate
Lea bought 225 flowers and 12 vases. She put about the same number of flowers in each vase. What is the best estimate for the number of flowers in each vase?
240 ÷ 12 = 20 or 200 ÷ 10 = 20
351 ÷ 27
13
3,549 ÷ 12
295 r 9
A group of 347 people have signed up for a bus trip to a baseball game. Each bus holds a maximum of 42 passengers. How many buses will be needed to take all the people to the game?
9 buses
The football coach spent a total of $890 including $50 in tax for 35 shirts for the team. Each shirt cost the same amount. What was the price of one shirt before tax was added?
$24 per shirt
Mr. Crane's farm is 593 acres. He divides the farm into 32 equal parts. What is the best estimate of the number of acres in each part?
600 ÷ 30 = 30
192 ÷ 16
12
1,352 ÷ 25
54 r 2
Eleanor and Billie make 752 brownies then give them to their 9 friends to share. How many will they have left over?
5 left over
A gymnast practices 6 days each week. She practices the same number of hours each day. If she practices a total of 120 hours in a 4-week period, how many hours each day does she practice?
5 hours each day
A scientist counted 3,921 total eggs in 49 sea turtle nests. Each nest had about the same number of eggs. What is the best estimate of the number of eggs she counted in each nest?
4,000 ÷ 50 = 80
379 ÷ 63
6 r 1
2,941 ÷ 28
105 r 1
The kids in class needed to bake exactly 550 cookies for the Fall Festival. Each baking pan holds 12 cookies. How many pans do they need to bake all of the cookies?
46 pans
Dex works at a dog adoption shelter. He has 4 large boxes of dog treats with 34 treats in each box and 3 small boxes with 28 treats in each box. How many bags of 20 treats can Dex make from all the treats?
11 bags
Choose Yes or No to tell if the number 50 will make each equation true.
a) 2,000 ÷ ____ = 40
b) 350 ÷ _____ = 70
c) 1,000 ÷ _____ = 200
d) 45,000 ÷ _____ = 900
a) Yes
b) No
c) No
d) Yes
748 ÷ 92
8 r 12
5,825 ÷ 42
138 r 29
Our school is having a school picnic celebration. They buy a box of hot dogs that has 1,857 hot dogs in it. If they split the hot dogs evenly among 32 classrooms, how many hot dogs will each classroom get?
58 hot dogs
A fish market bought two swordfish at a rate of $13 per pound. The cost of the larger fish was 3 times as great as the cost of the smaller fish. The total cost of the two fish was $3,952. How much did each fish cost?
large fish 228 pounds, small fish 76 pounds
Choose all the expressions that are equal to 84,000 ÷ 40.
8,400 ÷ 4
8,400 tens ÷ 4 tens
84 hundreds ÷ 4 hundreds
84 ÷ 4
84,000 tens ÷ 4 tens
8,400 ÷ 4
8,400 tens ÷ 4 tens
608 ÷ 16
38
7211 ÷ 58
124 r 19
Part A:
Quincy needs 322 yards of ribbon to decorate quilts for a craft fair. The ribbon comes in rolls of 15 yards. How many rolls of ribbon should Quincy buy?
Part B:
Alice needs twice as many yards of ribbon as Quincy.
How many rolls of ribbon does Alice need?
Part A: 22 rolls
Part B: 43 rolls
Ana's fifth grade class is making a large batch of punch for the all-day science fair. There are 25 students in Ana's class. The ingredients they mixed together to make the punch are listed on the recipe card. The class is going to pour 12-ounce servings. How many full servings can they make?
Grape Juice 240 ounces
Apple Juice 480 ounces
Orange Juice 640 ounces
Ginger Juice 150 ounces
125 servings