Dividing & Multiplying Decimals

A family used a total of 2.24 pounds of ground beef to make 8 equal-size hamburgers. How much ground beef in pounds was used for each hamburger?

• 0.33 lb

• 0.28 lb

• 0.3 lb

• 2.8 lb

A cafeteria worker used 8.05 kilograms of meat to make 35 lunches. Each lunch had the same amount of meat. What was the mass in kilograms of the meat in each lunch?

• 2.03 kg

• 0.23 kg

• 0.023 kg

• 2.3 kg

A restaurant bill was paid equally by 7 friends. The bill was $99.96. How much money in dollars and cents did each person pay?

The weight of sand in a large bag is 63.4 pounds. The sand in the bag is divided equally into 20 small bags. What is the weight in pounds of the sand in each small bag?

• 3.114 lb

• 3.107 lb

• 31.7 lb

• 3.17 lb

Mark has $5.25 in quarters. He spent all this money on 3 sports drinks. He spent the same amount for each sports drink. Which equation can be used to find the amount of money Mark spent for each sports drink?

• 5.25 × 3 = 15.75

• 5.25 ÷ 7 = 0.75

• 5.25 ÷ 3 = 1.75

• 5.25 × 7 = 36.75

The hundredths model is shaded to represent a division problem. Which equation is represented by the model?

• 0.72 ÷ 9 = 9

• 0.72 ÷ 9 = 0.09

• 0.72 ÷ 9 = 8

• 0.72 ÷ 9 = 0.08

One bucket of gravel has a mass of 7.05 kg. What is the mass of 20 buckets of gravel in kilograms?

• 14.1 kg

• 150 kg

• 27.05 kg

• 141 kg

George bought 3 peppers for a cost of $0.40 each. The model represents this situation. Which equation shows how to find the total cost in dollars and cents of the peppers George bought?

• 3 × 4 = 12.00

• 3 × 40 = 120.00

• 3 × 0.40 = 1.20

• 3 × 0.40 = 0.12

Freddy exercised 2.5 hours per day on 4 days last week. He burned 330 calories per hour while exercising. How many calories did Freddy burn by exercising last week?

• 2,640 calories

• 26,400 calories

• 3,300 calories

• 33,000 calories

Scott drank 3.5 bottles of water yesterday. Each bottle contained 1.2 pints of water. What was the number of pints of water Scott drank yesterday?

• 4.7 pints

• 4.2 pints

• 4.1 pints

• 42 pints