Interpreting Remainders #3

A librarian had to pack 71 books into boxes. If each box can hold 8 books, how many boxes did she need?

 $71\div8=8R7$  

• 8

• 7

• 9

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

An airline has 15 pieces of luggage to put away. If each luggage compartment holds 6 pieces of luggage, how many will be in the compartment that isn't full? 15÷ 6=2 r3

• Ignore the remainder and only use the quotient. 2

• Only use the remainder 3

• Round up the quotient to 3.

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

 A pizza store had 32 pieces of pepperoni to put on their pizzas. If each pizza got 9 pieces, how many extra pieces of pepperoni would they have?

 $32\div9=3R5$  

• 4

• 5

• 3

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

A recycling company had 64 pounds of material to sort. To make it easier they split them into boxes with each full box having 7 pounds. How many full boxes did they have?

 $64\div7=9R1$  

• 9

• 10

• 1

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

Abby has thirty bottles of water. She wants to drink four bottles a day. How many days will she have 4 full bottles to drink?

 $30\div4=7R2$  

• 7

• 2

• 8

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3