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100
2976 ÷ 4
What is 744
100
240 ÷ 12
What is 20
100
3900 ÷ 25
What is 156
100

Mr. Mark earned $78,750 last year. He worked 45 weeks. How much was he paid per week?

What is $1750

100

Jade is helping the librarian stack books on some new shelves. Jade will stack 162 books on 18 shelves. The librarian told her to put the same number of books on each of the 18 shelves. What are some compatible numbers you could use to ESTIMATE the number of books she should put on each shelf?

160 divided by 20

200
2772 ÷ 9
What is 308
200
288 ÷ 16
What is 18
200
2673 ÷ 81
What is 33
200
There are 775 notebooks for 25 students to given out on Friday. How many did each student receive?
What is 31
200

Jade is helping the librarian stack books on some new shelves. Jade will stack 162 books on 18 shelves. The librarian told her to put the same number of books on each of the 18 shelves. Can Jade put the same number of books on each shelf?

Yes! She can evenly put 9 books on each shelf. 

300
1011 ÷ 5
What is 202 R 1
300
780 ÷ 40
What is 19 R 20
300
2155 ÷17
What is 126 R 13
300
The band students are helping arrange chairs for the audience that will be attending the band concert. There is 312 chairs. If the band director wants 24 rows, how many chairs will be in each row?
What is 13
300

School buses are being used to transport 2,184 students from their school to the aquarium. Each bus can transport 53 people. How many buses are needed to transport all 2184 people to the aquarium?

42 buses! 11 people still need to get to the aquarium!

400
2518 ÷ 6
What is 419 R 4
400

572 ÷ 43

What is 13 R 13

400
1015 ÷ 66
What is 15 R 25
400

A fruit company needs to ship an order of 3,250 apples. The company ships the oranges in crates that hold 22 apples. How many crates will the company need for this order?

They will NEED 148 crates

400

WYN Club raised $475 to attend a Dodgers baseball game. Tickets cost $26 each. How many people will be able to attend the game? EXPLAIN!

Only 18 people. The $7 remaining is not enough to buy another ticket!

500
7841 ÷ 8
What is 980 R 1
500
58305 ÷ 845
What is 69
500
32275 ÷ 374
What is 86 R 111
500
George has 120 pieces of candy and wants to split them evenly between him AND his friends. He has 14 friends. Each person will get how many pieces of candy?
What is 8
500

School breakfast cereal usually comes in 4 ounce boxes. A cardboard company is offering a special price on 5-ounce boxes of cereal. If a food company has 350 ounces of cereal, will they have MORE or FEWER promotional boxes if they decide to go with the 5-ounce boxes instead of the 4-ounce boxes? 

They will have fewer boxes! If they went with the 4-oz boxes (350 ÷ 4) they could fill 85 boxes. If they went with the 5-oz boxes (350 ÷ 5) they could only fill 70 boxes!