Division- Word Probs
Ms. Knuffman has 237 pieces of candy to share with her 20 students. If each student gets the same amount, how much will they each get?
11, get rid of the extra 17
Mrs. Hollifield read 35 minutes a day for an entire year. How many minutes did she read all together?
12775 minutes (no comma used on gridded response)
Ayon went to the candy store with $20 in his wallet. He sees large rainbow lollipops on sale for $3 each. How many large rainbow lollipops can he buy?
6 R2 which means that he can only buy 6 large rainbow lollipops.
547 x 8 =
4,376
The local elementary school has 429 students. The local high school has 5 times as many students as the elementary school. How many students are at the high school?
2,145
534 people are attending the middle school football game. Each row in the stadium can hold 25 people. How many complete rows will be filled up?
21 full rows
Candy Craze sells lollipops by the dozen. If they received 15 orders on Monday and 22 orders on Tuesday, how many lollipops did they sell?
444 lollipops
Harry's Chocolate Factory makes candy bars and ships them out to retailers in boxes that contain 36 bars. They do not ship partially full boxes. If Harry's Chocolate Factory made 1,000 candy bars this week, how many full boxes of candy bars can they ship out to retailers?
27 R28 which means that Harry's Chocolate Factory can only ship out 27 full boxes this week.
1832/15 =
122R2
A group of 16 people went out to dinner and spent $624 on dinner. If they split the bill evenly, how much will they pay?
$39 each (without the tip!)
Mrs. Haro collected 1,548 toys to give to 14 organizations. How many toys will be left over?
8 toys will be left
There are 18 classrooms at Creech Road Elementary. There can be no more than 22 students in each class. What is the greatest number of students that could attend Creech Road?
396 students
A large bag of M&M's had 225 candies in it. If Joshua needs 12 M&M's to fill a treat bag, how many will be left over?
9 M&M's
86 x 42 =
3,612
Fluffy eat 4 cups of food each day. If a large bag of food contains 25 cups, how long will the food last?
6 days
Charlie wants to give out her sticker collection to her 18 classmates. She has 381 stickers. How many stickers will be left for Charlie?
3 stickers
Ms. Reber spends $275 on groceries each month. How much does she spend in one year?
3300 (No $ sign on gridded responses)
An art project requires 32 inches of ribbon to complete. If Victoria has 500 inches of ribbon in her drawer, how many complete art projects can she make?
15 complete projects
729/13 =
56R1
A movie theater sold 65 boxes of candy. Each box had 55 pieces of candy. How many pieces candy were sold?
3,575
There are a total of 500 students going on the field trip, plus 8 chaperones. Each bus can hold 60 people. How many buses will they need?
9 buses
3 girls have a competition to see who can do the most sit-ups in one week. Reyna does 37 each day, Jessica does 42 a day and Aubrey does 45 a day. How many pushups to they do altogether?
868 pushups
Jason was wrapping presents for a Christmas party. He has a total of 950ft of tape available to wrap presents. If each present needs 15ft of tape to seal properly, how much tape will be left if Jason wraps as many presents as he can with this tape?
5 ft
517 x 82 =
42,394
A school had 342 boxes of crayons. The boxes were shared evenly with 18 classrooms. How many boxes did each classroom get?
19 boxes