Find the quotient of:
528 divided by 3
176
A train has a total of 216 seats in 3 cars. Each train car has the same number of seats. How many seats are in each train car?
72 seats
Using rounding and estimation to check this equation:
185 divided by 6
Check: 30X6=180
Or 180 divided by 6=30
Bucky Badger collects 176 volleyballs during the match. He has to put them away equally into 4 ball carts. How many volleyballs are in each ball cart?
176 divided by 4
44 volleyballs
This is the answer to a division problem/
The quotient.
Find the quotient of:
752 divided by 7
107 R3
There are 224 students enrolled in swim classes. If there are 8 students in each class, how many classes are there?
28 classes
Use estimation and rounding to check if your quotient makes sense.
236 divided by 5
Quotient: 47 R1
Check: 50X5=250
or 200 divided by 5=40
The kitchen makes 185 sugar cookies for classroom parties. There are 18 students in each class. How many classrooms are there in the school?
185 divided by 18=10 R5
10 classrooms
This number is the total of things you are divided. (Hint: it goes in the bracket)
Dividend
Find the quotient of:
470 divided by 3
156 R2
Abby read 28 pages in a novel. Corey read 29 more pages than Abby. Evan read 3 times as many pages as Corey. How many pages did Evan read?
28+29=57
57x3=171
171 pages
Use rounding and estimation to check if your quotient makes sense.
2,526 divided by 6
Quotient: 421
Check: 400x6=2,400
or 2,400 divided by 6=400
Mrs. McCarville puts 203 apples into cases. Each case hold 8 apples. How many cases is Mrs. McCarville able to fill with apples? How many apples are in a case that is not full?
203 divided by 8=25 R3
25 cases
3 apples
This is the number you are dividing by. (Hint: it goes outside the bracket)
Find the quotient of:
6,265 divided by 5
1,253
Mrs. Ruf finds 23 seashells on Friday and 38 more seashells on Saturday. She shares as many as she can of the seashells equally among herself and 3 friends. She keeps the leftover seashells for herself. How many seashells does Mrs. Ruf have?
23+38=61
61 divided by 4=15 R 1
15+1=16
16 seashells
Check rounding and estimation to see if your quotient makes sense.
4,435 divided by 7
Quotient: 633 R4
Check: 600x7=4,200
or 4,200 divided by 7=600
Miss Natalie uses 12 boxes of nails to make bird feeders for Christmas presents. There are 83 nails in each box. How many nails does she use in all?
12x83=996
996 nails
_______x_________=_________
(Hint: think of your vocabulary terms)
quotient x divisor=dividend
Find the quotient of:
5,155 divided by 3
1,718 R1
US Cellular makes 840 cell phones. Testing shows that 45 of them are broken, and the rest are shipped to 5 stores. Each store receives an equal number of cell phones. How many cell phones does each store get?
840-45=795
795 divided by 5=159
159 cell phones
Use rounding and estimation to see if your quotient makes sense.
5,325 divided by 8
Quotient: 665 R5
Check: 650x8=5,2000
or 5,600 divided by 8=700
$124+$88=$212
$212 divided by 2=$106
$106
This is the reason you can check division problems using multiplication.
They are inverse operations.