Division Word Problems
A clown needed three hundred eleven balloons for a party he was going to, but the balloons only came in packs of thirty-five. How many packs of balloons would he need to buy?
9 packs of balloons
Adam jogged 8 1/2 Kilometers on Monday and 7 3/9 kilometers on Tuesday. What is the difference between these two distances?
7/6 or 1 1/6 kilometers
An electrician paid $379.91 total for 1,000 feet of wire. How much does he pay per foot of wire?
379.91/1000 = 0.3799136 per foot of wire
Adam stacked 7 pieces of wood on top of one another. If each piece was 10/12 of a foot tall, how tall was his pile?
5 10/12 feet tall
A toy store sold thirty-nine video games in one day. If each game cost forty-nine dollars, how much money did they make?
$1,911 dollars
A movie store had five hundred one movies they were putting on eleven shelves. If the owner wanted to make sure each shelf had the same number of movies how many more movies would he need?
5 movies
On Monday George spent 10 1/3 hours studying. On Tuesday he spent another 4 2/6 hours studying. What is the combined time he spent studying?
44/3 or 14 2/3 hours
A bag of 1,000 cherries weighs 676.03 ounces. How many ounces does each cherry weigh?
0.67603 ounces per cherry
Robin bought a couple of packages of gum at the gas station and ate 3/4 of a package each week. How much would she have eaten after 7 weeks?
5 1/4 packages of gum
George was packing up his old toys. He managed to squeeze thirty toys into a box. If George filled up eighty-two boxes, how many toys did he pack total?
2,460 toys
Billy was trying to beat his old score of four hundred eighty-six points in a video game. If he scores exactly fifteen points each round, how many rounds would he need to play to beat his old score.
33 rounds
On Saturday a restaurant used 4 1/3 cans of vegetables. On Sunday they used another 2 7/10 cans. What is the total amount of vegetables they used?
211/30 or 7 1/30 cans of vegetables
Billy has put 100 hours into playing an online video game. He has paid $78.28 over the course of the entire game. How much did he pay per hour played?
0.7828 cents per hour
Rachel needed 1/2 of a cup of water for 1 flower. If she had 3 flowers how many cups would she need?
1 1/2 cups of water
Rachel had forty-two shelves of DVDs. If each shelf had sixty-eight movies on it, how many movies did she have total?
2,856 movies
Carol had five hundred twenty-six photos to put into a photo album. If each page holds forty-seven photos, how many full pages will she have?
11 full pages
A chef bought 5 1/4 pounds of carrots. If he later bought another 8 1/3 pounds of carrots, what is the total weight of carrots he bought?
163/12 or 13 7/12 pounds of carrots
Carol was looking on the internet for packing paper. She found a seller that was offering 1,000 linear feet of paper for $3.11. What is the price per linear foot?
0.00311 cents per linear foot
Carol was packing up some of her old stuff into a box. A box can hold 2 pounds, but she only filled it up 1/4 full. How much weight was in the box?
2/4 of a pound (1/2 a pound)
There are thirty-six plates in a box. If a restaurant bought fifty-eight boxes, how many plates would they have total?
2,088 plates
It takes thirty-two apples to make an apple pie. If a chef bought seven hundred forty apples, the last pie would need how many more apples?
28 apples
While exercising Oliver travelled 8 8/9 kilometers. If he walked 5 5/8 kilometers and jogged the rest, how many kilometers did he jog?
235/72 or 3 19/72 kilometers jogged
A toy company paid $78,154.67 for a 30 second TV ad. Later they learned that an estimated 10,000 children had viewed the ad. How much money did they pay per viewer?
7.815467 dollars per viewer
Oliver lived 3 miles from his school. If he rode his bike 7/10 of the distance and then walked the rest, how far did he ride his bike?
2 1/10 miles
Tiffany was making necklaces for her friends. She had eleven friends who wanted a necklace and each necklace took twenty-three beads. How many beads would she need total?
253 beads