Division Word Problems

Melia is packing gift boxes for her nine friends. She wants 72 items to be shared with her friends. Each gift box can only hold four items. How many gift boxes does Melia need?

• 8

• 9

• 16

• 18

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CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

Zachary has 18 pieces of candy corn. He is going to share his candy corn equally with 2 friends. How many candy corn will Zachary and his 2 friends get if he shares them equally?

• 9

• 6

• 17

• It will NOT be evenly shared

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Abigail planted 30 pumpkin seeds equally in 5 rows.  How many pumpkin seeds did Abigail plant in each row?

• 4
• 5
• 6
• 8

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Jordan brought four plates of cookies to share with his tennis team. There are nine cookies on each plate. How many cookies does each teammate get if there are six teammates?

• 27

• 5

• 36

• 6

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CCSS.3.OA.A.1

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Kevin purchased a new box of 90 sports cards. He kept 48 cards and gave the rest to 6 friends to share equally. Which fact can Kevin use to determine how many cards to give each friend?

• 42

• 7

• 15

• 144

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CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.A.4

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

Dianne bought 48 tickets for rides at the carnival. The tickets were shared equally among 6 people. Each ride takes 2 tickets. How many rides can each person ride?

• 4

• 8

• 12

• 40

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CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Paige has 60 flyers she organized in piles. There are 10 flyers in each pile. How many piles are there?

• 6 piles

• 50 piles

• 60 piles

• 70 piles

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CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.A.4

There are 24 people running around the track. If the runners are evenly divided among the track's 4 lanes, how many people are running in each lane?

• 40
• 24
• 4
• 6

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Joe made $24.00 dollars mowing lawns last week.  He charges 4 dollars per lawn.  How many lawns did he mow last week?

• 8
• 6
• 3
• 5

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Alison has 63 apples to give to kids. Each apple is sliced into 7 pieces. How many apples will each kid get if they are supposed to get 21 apple pieces each?

• 9

• 7

• 3

• 4

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CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.D.8