dec/ whole #
42.9/3
14.3
725/.2
3,625
1.4/.7
2
A roll of ribbon is 1,780 inches long. It takes 1 yard of ribbon (36 inches) to wrap a gift. How many gifts can be wrapped? What do you do with the remainder?
49 gifts.
Ignore it! 16 in is not enough to wrap a gift
A turtle walks .2 mile in 1 hour. how far can it walk in .5 hour?
multiply. the answer is .1 mile
1.884/4
.471
623/.04
15,575
14.4/.12
120
There are 247 people traveling to the basketball game by bus. Each bus holds 52 people. How many buses do we need? What do we do with the remainder?
5 buses. We round up the remainder so all people can go!
Gus ran 3.6 miles. He took a sip of water every .9 mile. How many sips did he take?
divide. 4 sips
47.25/7
6.75
853/.4
2,132.5
15.9/.03
530
The 28 students in Mrs. McHugh's class share 98 slices of pizza equally. How many slices will each student get. What do we do with the remainder?
3 1/2 slices. We solve fully and use the remainder in our answer as a fraction.
Last year 135 cows on Dixie's Dairy Farm had calves. This year .6 times that many cows had calves. How many cows had calves this year?
multiply. 81 cows
7.85/4
1.9625
945/.06
15,750
18.5/1.6
11.5625
A rectangular garden has an area of 882 square meters. The long side of the garden has a length of 35 meters. How long is the short side? What do we do with the remainder?
25.2 meters. We solve fully and turn the remainder into a decimal.
A box contains 1.2 pounds of cereal. A serving weighs .08 pounds. How many servings are in a box?
divide. 15 servings
876.5/2
438.25
784/.14
5,600
.0285/.06
.475
A bagel shop has 138 bagels to be packed into boxes and 12 to be sold. The extra bagels are for the workers. How many bagels will the workers get? What do we do with the remaindeR?
6 bagels. The remainder is our answer!
A rectangular patio has an area of 131.52 square meters. The width of the patio is 9.6 meters. What is its length?