Challenge
A store sold a total of 568 pens. If there were 71 packages of pens sold, estimate how many pens were in each package.
What is 8 pens?
Estimate using compatible numbers: 51 / 4
What is 50 / 5 = 10?
360/40
What is 9?
364 / 14
What is 26?
The school bought 324 pencils to split evenly among 18 students. How many pencils does each student get?
Each student gets 18 pencils.
A factory makes 756 toy trains in one day. The trains are placed in boxes of 20. How many toy trains will be left over if you fill all the possible boxes?
What is 16 trains left over?
Estimate using compatible numbers: 274 / 88
What is 270 / 90 = 3?
2100/30
What is 70?
648 / 27
What is 24?
A farmer harvested 4,752 apples and packed them into boxes of 24 apples each. How many boxes did he fill?
The farmer filled 198 boxes.
A farm purchases 2,800 apple trees. 70 trees can be planted on each acre of land. Write an equation to represent how many acres of land will be needed to plant all of the trees.
What is 2,800/70 = A?
Estimate using compatible numbers: 643 / 83
What is 640 / 80 = 8?
4800/80
What is 60?
1333 / 43
What is 31?
A library has 1,563 bookmarks to give away during reading week. Each class receives 47 bookmarks. How many classes can receive bookmarks, and how many bookmarks will be left over?
33 classes can receive bookmarks, with 12 bookmarks leftover.
Sam makes bottles of lemonade. Today, she has 672 ounces of lemonade to bottle. Each bottle holds 16 ounces of lemonade. They sell each bottle for $2 each. How much money will Sam receive if she sells all her bottles?
What is $84?
Estimate using compatible numbers: 725 / 81
What is 720 / 80 = 9?
72,000/80
What is 900?
2665 / 41
What is 65?
A toy company produced 36,540 trading cards and packed them into sets of 125 cards per pack.
How many full packs can be made?
The company can make 292 full packs.
Janet made 384 chocolate bars. She puts 24 bars in each bag. She plans to sell each bag for $5. Write two equations that Janet can use to find the amount of money she will earn if she sells all the bags.
Estimate using compatible numbers: 528 / 64
What is 480 / 60 = 8?
81,000/90
What is 900?
8218 / 14
What is 587?
A charity collected 82,496 cans of food and wants to place them into donation bags containing 350 cans each. How many full bags can they make, and how many cans will remain?
They can make 235 full bags, with 246 cans leftover.