Multi/Division
A concert hall contains 8 sections of seats with the same number of seats in each section. If there are 248 seats, how many seats are in each section?
There are 31 seats in each section.
Zachary's final project for a college course took a semesters to write and had 95,234 words. Zachary wrote 35,295 words the first month and 19, 240 words the second month. How many words did he write during the remaining part of the semester?
40,699
Round 875,402 to the nearest ten, nearest hundred and nearest ten thousand.
Nearest ten: 875,400
Nearest hundred; 875,400
Nearest ten thousand: 880,000
Windsor the dog ate 5 2/3 snack bones each day for two weeks. How many total bones did he eat in two weeks?
136 bones
Tamika had a piece of ribbon that was 2 feet and 9 inches long. How many total inches of ribbon does Tamika have?
Tamika has 33 inches of ribbon.
82x47
3,854
Quarterback Brett Favre passed the 71,838 yards between the years 1991 and 2011. His all-time high was 4,413 passing yards in one year. In his second highest year, he threw 4,212 passing yards. About how many passing yards did he throw in the remaining years? Estimate by rounding each value to the nearest thousand and then compute.
He threw 64,000 yards over the remaining years.
A construction company was building a stone wall on Main Street. 100,000 stones were delivered to the site. On monday they used 15,631 stones. How many stones remain for the rest of the week?
84,369 stones remain for the week.
11 1/4 - 3 3/4 =
7 1/2
There were 904 children signed up for the relay race. If there were 6 children on each team, how many teams were made? The remaining children were referees.
150 teams were made. There were 4 referees.
A jet air plane holds about 65,000 gallons of has. It uses about 7,460 gallons when flying between New York City and Los Angeles. Round each number to the largest place value. Then find out about how many trips the plane can take between cities before running out of fuel.
The plane can take 10 trips before running out of fuel.
In one year, a factory used 11,650 meters of cotton. 4,950 fewer meters of silk than cotton and 3,500 fewer meters of wool than silk. How many meters of fabric were used?
21,550 meters of fabric were used.
Natasha's sculpture was 5 3/16 tall. Maya's was 4 times as tall. How much shorter was Natasha's sculpture than Maya's?
Natasha's sculpture was 15 9/16 shorter.
What is the product of 66 and 94? Show two ways of solving.
6,204 (area model and standard algorithm)
A seamstress needs 1 5/8 yards of fabric to make a child's dress. She needs 3 times as much fabric to make a woman's dress. How many yards of fabric does she need for both dresses?
She needs 6 1/2 yards for both dresses.
Many fans attended the state play-offs this year. On the first night 20,359 attended the game, while 26,104 attended the second night, and 27,728 attended the third night. How many total fans attended the play offs?
74,191 fans attended the play offs.
Which fraction is not equivalent to the other three?
6/4, 16/12, 9/6, 3/2
16/12
Kelly separated 618 cookies into baggies Each baggie contained 3 cookies. How many baggies did Kelly make?
Kelly made 206 baggies.
Meiling needed 5 dollars 35 cents to buy a ticket to a show. In her wallet, she found two dollar bills, 11 dimes, and 5 pennies. How much more money does Meiling need to buy the ticket?
She needs $2.20 more to buy the ticket.
Write this number in standard, unit and expanded form, then round it to every place value.
Four hundred thousand six hundred forty two
400,462
Unit: 4 hundred thousands, 4 hundreds, 6 tens, 1 one
Expanded: 400,000 + 400 + 60 + 2
400,000
400,500
400,460
Rewrite 7/4 as a the multiplication of a whole number by a unit fraction.
7 x 1/4 = 7/4