Interpreting Remainders
Amelia is trying to finish her math homework so she can go outside and play. Each math problem takes her 5 minutes to complete and she has 15 problems she needs to do. How many math problems is she able to complete in 58 minutes?
11 problems
Destin's family is taking a road trip to Orlando, Florida. The total trip is 562 miles long. His mom drove the first 198 miles and his dad has driven 137 miles. How many more miles does his dad need to drive to make it to Orlando?
227 miles
Jai is a professional dog walker. She charges $12 to walk big dogs and $8 to walk small dogs. Last week, she walked 9 big dogs and 7 small dogs. How much money did she make all together?
$164
Myracle brought a total of 35 cupcakes to school for her birthday. The flavors included chocolate, vanilla and confetti. If she brought 14 vanilla and 10 chocolate, how many confetti cupcakes did Myracle bring?
11 cupcakes
Saleah loves to go to the nickel candy store every Friday after school. She saves up her money and has 142 nickels to spend on candy. Her favorite candy costs 7 nickels. How many nickels will Saleah have left after buying as many of her favorite candy as she can?
2 nickels left
Ahmina is getting ready for Christmas. She has saved up $120 total and will divide that evenly to buy gifts for her 4 siblings. If each gift she bought costs $6, how many gifts can she get each sibling?
5 gifts
Aaron and Berelin went out to dinner and had $60 to spend. Aaron's meal cost $11. Berelin's meal cost twice as much as Aaron's. They also left a $6 tip for the waitress. How much money did they have left after dinner?
$21
Arohi has 45 gumballs. The gumballs are green, blue and red. If she has 12 red and 17 blue gumballs, how many green does she have?
16 green gumballs
Peter is holding a video game tournament at his local video game store. He sends out invitations and finds out that 47 people are coming. If each gaming station lets 6 people play, how many gaming stations will Peter need to set up so everyone can play at once?
8 stations
Moustafa's mom requires him to practice his drums for 100 minutes a week. On Mondays, he practiced for 25 minutes and on Tuesday he only practiced for 15 minutes. How many more minutes does he need to practice this week?
60 minutes
While playing a video game, Safal defeated 4 enemies with each enemy defeated earning 500 points. If he traded in all of his points for 10 extra lives, how many points did each life cost her?
200 points
Alaiya scored 6 goals, and Sariy scored 8 goals during their field hockey game. All together the team scored 19 goals. How many goals did the rest of the team score?
5 goals
A group of 33 scouts are going on a camping trip. They have access to tents that can each sleep up to 4 people each. How many tents do they need to bring so everyone has a place to sleep?
9 tents
Mandesh went to a garage sale and bought 5 boxes of gel pens. Each box had 20 gel pens. Mandesh wants to evenly split the pens between himself and his three best friends. How many pens will each person get?
25 gel pens
Zenith read 5 books, Ke'Mari read 7 books and Mikera read 8 books. One of the books was read by all three children but every other book was different. How many different books did the children read?
18 different books
Bobby has WAY too much pizza left over after his party, so he decides to give some to his friends. He has 3 pizzas and each pizza has 12 slices. If he wants to keep 5 pieces for himself, how many slices will he have left to give out to his friends.
31 slices of pizza
Marlon is throwing a birthday party nd wants to order pizza. He has $75 and each pizza costs $9. How many pizzas can he order and how much change will he have left over?
8 pizzas with $3 left over
Sushan was given $85 for his birthday. He went to the store and bought a video game that costs $47, a soccer ball that costs $13 and two movies that cost $6 each. How much money does he have left?
$13
Aliceeya has 78 sports trading cards. She took out her favorite 8 and then equally divided the rest between her two friends Ken and Nancy. Nancy already had 12 of her own sports cards. How many does she have now?
47 trading cards
Ms. Gilbert has $27. She went to the arcade and spent $15 on games and then bought two hot dogs for 3 dollars each. How much money does she have now?
$6