Estimating
19 / 4
20 / 4 = 5
What is the dividend
the number being divided
9.5 / 5
1.6
Rick is making new shelves for his room. He has 20.4 feet of wood. If he needs 3.4 feet of wood for each shelf, how many shelves can he make?
6 shelves
3/4 - 1/3
5/12
23.5 / 5
24 / 4 = 6
what is the divisor
the number doing the dividing
7.6 / 4
1.9
Dani is making a necklaces. Each necklace is 33.4cm long. If she has 233.8 cm of cord, how many can she make?
7 necklaces
6/8 x 12
9
83.2 / 42.7
80 / 40 = 2
Mrs. Lanz has 12 sticks of butter that she needs to split between 7 batches of cookies. How much butter will be in each batch?
dividend: 12 Divisor: 7
$0.60
Mrs. Lanz calculates 89.24 divided by 2.3 and gets 388. What error did she make?
She forgot to put the decimal point above in her answer when she moved it in the dividend.
An 8 mile running path is divided into 1/3 mile sections. How many sections does the path have?
24 sections
350 / 25 = 14
Marcus wants to go hiking. The trail is 2.76 miles long and he hikes 0.46 mile each hour. How long will it take him to hike the whole trail?
Dividend: 2.76
Divisor: 0.46
358.9 / 7
51.271
5.6 Feet long
An object that weighs 1 pound on Earth weighs only 0.17 pounds on the moon. Suppose a rock brought back from the moon weighs 2.5 pounds on Earth, what would it weigh on the moon?
0.425 Pounds
2,563.08 / 22.9
2500 / 20 = 120
The cost of a notepad is $0.65 and Ramon paid $3.25 for notepads. How many did he buy?
dividend: 3.25 Divisor: 0.65
Fletcher runs 4 miles in 37.60 minutes. He runs each mile in the same amount of time. How long will it take him to run each mile?
9.4 minutes
Jenny is buying spaghetti squash per pound. Each pound is $0.32. If spends $5.21, to the nearest hundredth, about how many pounds did she buy?
About 16.28 pounds of squash
Evaluate the numerical expression:
{[24/ (6-2)] -4} x 3
6