Estimation Decimal Quotients - Independent Practice

Use compatible numbers to find the estimate.

Mrs. Parino bought 8.4 yards of cloth to make the curtains for some windows at her house. She paid $67.12 to buy the cloth. About how many dollars did it cost to buy one yard of cloth?

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

Round to the find the estimate:

Fifteen players of Royal Wildcats team went to buy lunch together and spent $87.85. About how much money did the team spend on lunch for each player?

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

South Lake Tahoe recorded a snowfall of 20.68 inches in a full week immediately after Christmas. About how many inches of snowfall happened each day? Give a lower and a higher estimate (round to the nearest tens and ones place).

• 2.5 to 3.5 inches

• 1.5 to 2.5 inches

• 3.0 to 4.0 inches

• 2.0 to 3.0 inches

ROUND TO SOLVE:

Estimate the speed at which Justin drove his car if he drove for 10.4 hours from Los Angeles to San Francisco, covering a total distance of approximately 449.6 miles.

(Speed = Time ÷ distance)

• 45 mph

• 44 mph

• 50 mph

• 55 mph

Rita read 242 pages of a book in 3.5 hours. If she read 90 pages in the first 1.3 hours, about how many pages did she read per hour in rest of the 2.2 hours?

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CCSS.7.EE.B.3

Round to find the estimate:

The volume of a soup bowl that Jamie uses is 3.5 fluid ounces. Jamie filled the cup with soup and found its mass. The bowl of soup had a mass of 156.62 grams. About how much is the mass of 1 fluid ounce of soup in grams?

• 50 grams

• 30 grams

• 40 grams

• 49.50 grams

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3D

Use compatible numbers to estimate.

A 4.2 liters bottle of insecticide costs $25.65. Which is the best estimate that shows the cost of insecticide per liter?

• $4

• $5

• $6

• $7

Estimate the quotient.

3.8 ÷ 2

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

Estimate the quotient.

11.9 ÷ 4.2

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

Estimate the quotient.

28.3 ÷ 6.8

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7