Estimating Quotients
Name the closest estimate for 61/3
What is 60/3=20?
Calculate 153/9.
What is 17?
Katie has 6 times as many nickels as Shaun. Shaun has 8 nickels. Calculate the amount of nickels Katie has.
What is 48 nickels?
Five students want to share 46 pieces of chocolate. Calculate the amount that each student will receive.
What is 9 pieces of chocolate?
Jordan needs $9,240 for her first year of college tuition. She has eight years to save before she goes to college. Calculate the amount of money Jordan should save each year to have enough money for her first year in college.
What is $1,155?
Name the closest estimate for 497/8.
What is 480/8=60?
Calculate 277/5.
What is 55r2?
Mary practiced violin for 2 hours. Her brother practiced trombone for 8 hours. Calculate how many times more Mary's brother practiced than Mary.
What is 4 times more?
Seventy-five children are going to the aquarium in vans. Each van holds 8 students. Calculate the total number of vans needed to get all the children to the aquarium.
What is 10 vans?
Bella baked 3 batches of 24 homemade dog treats. She packed 9 bags with an equal number of treats. Calculate the amount of treats in each bag.
What is 8 treats?
Name the closest estimate for 5,521/9.
What is 5,400/9=600?
Calculate 2,826/3.
What is 942?
Connor has 77 magazines. That is 7 times as many magazines as Kristen has. Calculate the amount of magazines Kristen has.
What is 11 magazines?
Ms. Blackwood passed out 25 pencils to 6 students. Ms. Blackwood will keep the leftovers. Calculate how many pencils Ms. Blackwood will keep.
What is 1 pencil?
Martin raked 3 lawns last week and 4 lawns this week. He earned $168. Martin earned the same amount raking each lawn. Calculate the amount of money Martin earned for each lawn.
What is $24?
Name the closest estimate for 5,346/6.
What is 5,400/6=900?
Calculate 8,457/4.
What is 2,114r1?
Tina walked 25 miles for a fundraiser. Lia walked 4 times as many miles as Tina. Calculate the amount of miles Lia walked.
What is 100 miles?
Ms. Gischel wants to share her chocolate chip cookies with 4 students. She purchases 14 cookies. Calculate the amount of cookies each student will receive.
What is 3 1/2 cookies?
Taylor Elementary School has 105 staff members. Each staff member will receive a 6-page newspaper. The special newsprint paper comes in packages of 8 sheets. Calculate the amount of packages that will be needed for all staff members to receive a newspaper.
What is 79 packages?
Name the closest estimate for 3,296/54.
What is 3,000/50=60?
Calculate 4,567/32.
What is 142r23?
Dave is making soup that includes 12 cups of water and 3 cups of broth. Calculate how many times more water is needed than broth.
What is 4 times more?
What is 24 bows?
Bryan and Alex have to buy their own instruments for the band. Alex made $1,205 from a fundraiser. He has a part-time job that pays $8 an hour. Calculate the amount of hours that Alex needs to work in order to have enough money to buy his instrument.
What is 51 hours?