Estimating Quotients with Compatible Numbers
261/5
About 50
270/3
90
A boy wants to purchase 404 green marbles. If there are 4 green marbles in each bag, how many bags of marbles should the boy buy?
101 bags
38/4
9 R2
Alex has 59 football cards. He wants to put them in an album. The album can fit 3 cards per page. How many full pages of cards will Alex complete?
19 pages
470/7
About 70
4500/5
90
Greenville Beverages has 240 fluid ounces of water to bottle. Each bottle holds 8 fluid ounces. How many bottles will the water fill?
30 bottles
68/2
34
Mrs. Clouser has 77 apples to put into bags. She can fit 3 apples in each bag. How many apples will not fit and be left out?
2 apples
1,376/4
About 300
4800/8
600
Dorsey's Kitchen Supply needs to store 119 boxes in their warehouse. If they can put 5 boxes on each shelf, how many shelves will they need?
24 shelves
688/8
86
Jada bought an art kit with 58 colored pencils. She and her 3 sisters will share the pencils equally. How many pencils will each sister receive? How many pencils will be left over?
Each sister will receive 14 pencils and 2 will be left over.
5,238/6
About 900
5400/9
600
A tour group has $144 to buy train tickets. Each ticket costs $6. How many train tickets can the group buy?
24 tickets
7742/9
860 R 2
The 3rd graders at Miller Elementary School go to a play. There are 13 students in Mrs. Flag's class, 17 in Mr. Scott's class, and 19 in Mrs. Smith's class. If each row can fit 5 students, how many rows are needed to fit all of the students?
10 rows