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1 + 1
2
948 divided by 4
237
Thomas has one 9-foot board. He needs to make 4 foot shelves. How many shelves can he make?
Ignore the remainder. 2 Shelves.
A family drives 1,498 miles from Boston, MA to Miami, FL. If they drive the same amount of miles each day for 7 days, how many miles will they drive each day?
214 miles each day
Evan and Andrew were playing flag football against Jackie and Levi. A touchdown is worth 7 points. Evan and Andrew scored 9 touchdowns and Jackie and Levi scored 13 touchdowns. How many more points did Jackie and Levi have than Evan and Andrew?
Jackie and Levi scored 28 more points.
Use the box method to divide 809 by 7
115 R4
738 divided by 6
123
37 fourth graders are going on a field trip. If each car holds 6 fourth graders, how many cars will be needed.
Round up since the answer is 6 R1. There needs to be 7 cars.
The students at Arroyo Elementary School collected 2,790 cans for the food drive. If each student brought 5 cans, how many students are at the school?
558 Students
On Thursday Tristyn sold 174 candy bars. On Friday she sold twice that amount. On Saturday she only sold 87 candy bars. How many more candy bars did Tristyn sell on Friday than Saturday?
She sold 261 more candy bars on Friday than she did on Saturday.
9 X 7
63
979 divided by 4
244 R3
Sadie brought 17 cookies to school. She shared them equally amongst herself and her 3 friends. How many cookies did each person get.
The remainder causes a fractional answer. Each person gets 4 and a 1/4 cookies.
To advertise for the carnival, the students made posters to hang in the hallways. The students started with 4,089 pieces of paper to makes the posters. When they finished they had 27 pieces left over. How many pieces of paper did they use?
4,062 pieces of paper
Jalen paints pictures and sells them at art shows. He charges $53 for a large painting and $25 for a small painting. Last month he sold six large paintings and 8 small paintings. How much money did he make in all?
Jalen made $574 last month.
Use expanded notation to solve 5700 divided by 6
950
2945 divided by 5
589
26 people want to run in the relay race. Each relay team can only have 4 runners. How many runners can not run in the relay race?
The remainder is your answer. 2 runners can not run in the relay race.
The parents ordered pizza to the carnival. Each pizza had 8 slices. How many pizzas would have to be ordered so that 2,046 people could have one slice.
255 R6. So 256 pizzas had to be ordered.
The school has 256 banana muffins and 298 chocolate chip muffins. Each box they fill can hold 6 muffins. What is the greatest number of boxes that can be filled with muffins?
92 R2. Remainder is ignored. 92 entirely filled boxes.
Henry started his own landscaping business. He charges $6 an hour to mow lawns and $11 an hour to pull weeds. In November he mowed lawns for 63 hours and pulled weeds for 9 hours. How much money did Henry earn in November?
Henry made $477 in November.
2,359 divided by 9
262 R1
Miss Reynolds bought pencils for her class. She has 25 students. Pencils come in packs of 6. Each student got one pencil. How many packs did she buy?
Remainder makes you round up. 4 R1. She bought 5 packs of pencils.
Leila went out to dinner with Kendall, Harleigh, and Penny. The bill for dinner was $52. How much did each person have to pay?
They each had to pay $13.
Nine buses of students, teachers, and parents went on a field trip. If 5 of the buses held 63 people each and the other buses held 54 people each, how many people went in all?
531 people went on the field trip.