Chapter 3

Divide

100

756 ÷ 63

12

200

4,923÷ 22

223 17/22

300

8,505 ÷ 24

354 9/24

400

1,989 ÷ 15

132 9/15

500

1,077 ÷ 21

51 6/21

Interpret the Remainder

100

Alex's hiking club has to stay overnight at a hotel. Each large room can hold 15 people. They have 154 hikers with them. How many rooms do they need?

11 rooms

200

A total of of 123 5th grader students go on a field trip. each bus holds 48 students. All of the buses are full except 1. How many students will be in the bus that is not full?

9

300

The students in a class of 24 share 48 apples slices and 16 orange slices equally among them. How many pieces of fruit did each student get?

3 12/24 

or 

3 1/2

400

Emily buys 240 square feet of carpet. She can convert square feet to square yards by dividing the number of square feet by 9. How many square yards of carpet did Emily buy? 

26 2/3 yards

500

James has 322 yards of ribbon to decorate quilts for a craft fair. The ribbon comes in rolls of 15 yards. How many full rolls if ribbon does James have?

15

Adjust Quotients

100

689 divided by 24. 

The estimate quotient is 3 starting in the tens place. 

too high

28 17/24

200

2,210 divided by 65 

3 is the quotient estimate in the tens place. 

Just right 

34 

300

38 divided by 7,350

the quotient 2 is estimated in the tens place

too high

193 16/38

400

A copier prints 89 copies in one minute. How many minutes does it take the copier to print 1,958 copies?

22 min. 

500

Kira is saving her money to buy a dining room set that costs $580. If she saves $29 each month, how many months will she need to save to have enough money to buy the set?

20 months

Draw to solve

100

Duane has 12 times as many baseball cards as Tony. Between them, they have 208 baseball cards. How many baseball cards does each player have?

Tony: 16

Duane: 192

200

Chelsea has 11 times as many art brushes as Monique. If they have 60 art brushes altogether how many brushes does Chelsea have?

55 brushes

300

Cindy has a gerbil and a dog. The dog eats 14 times as much food as the gerbil. Altogether they eat 225 ounces of food per week. How many ounces of food does the dog eat per week?

210 ounces 

400

Eric, Steph, and Melissa Went to pick apples. Eric picked 4 times as many apples as Melissa. Steph picked 6 times as many apples as Melissa. Eric and Steph picked 150 apples, how many did Melissa pick?

15 apples

500

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 weigh? 

larger fish 228 pounds

smaller fish 76 pounds

Equations

100

13=j ÷ 8

j=104

200

m ÷ 10=16

m=160

300

92=fx4

f=23

400

165=11r

r=15

500

105=3xa

a=35