Lesson 20 - Interpreting Remainders

The overflow parking lot for a football game was full, and there were 160 people waiting. The shuttle bus could hold 30 people. How many trips did it have to take to shuttle everyone to the game?

• 5 trips

• 6 trips

• $5\ \frac{1}{3}$ trips

Answer explanation

160 ÷ 30 = 5 R10. That means 10 people will still be waiting after the fifth ride. The shuttle bus will need to make a sixth run.

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Harish was making a loaf of banana bread for his mom and one for his grandmother. He had 3 cups of brown sugar to split equally between the two loaves. How much brown sugar went into each loaf?

• 1 cup

• 2 cups

• $1\ \frac{1}{2}$ cups

Answer explanation

The problem does not give a specific amount of brown sugar that needs to go into a loaf. It just says that Harish is splitting what he has equally between the two loaves. You can split a whole cup of brown sugar into two half-cups.

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Tina is making cakes to sell at a bake sale. Each recipe calls for two large eggs. Tina has nine eggs at home. How many cakes can she sell?

• 4 cakes

• 5 cakes

• $4\ \frac{1}{2}$ cakes

Answer explanation

Here, you are given a specific number of eggs that it takes to make a whole cake. Tina only has enough eggs to make four whole cakes. She cannot sell part of a cake at a bake sale.

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Jessica is dividing 8 cups of blueberries among three pies. She wants to know how many cups of berries could go into each pie.

• $2\ \frac{2}{3}$ cups

• 2 r 2 cups

• $2\ \frac{1}{2}$ cups

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

John is using 130 Legos to put together boxes of 12 bricks each for his Lego club meeting. How many complete boxes of Lego bricks can he make?

• 10 boxes

• 11 boxes

• 9 boxes

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Grace and her friends are going camping. There are 20 girls going in all. Each tent can hold a maximum of six people. How many tents does Grace need?

• 4 tents

• 5 tents

• 3 tents

Answer explanation

She should increase the quotient by 1. Grace cannot hold all of the girls in three tents, and she cannot make $\frac{2}{3}$

of a tent, so she must bring a fourth tent so that everyone has somewhere to sleep.

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3