Interpreting Remainders

Dave is packing 23 sweaters into boxes. Each box will hold 3 sweaters. How many boxes will he need in all?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Keiko makes necklaces like the one in the picture on the right. She has 19 blue beads and 13 red beads. How many necklaces can she make?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Jack is making muffins. He plans to use 5 raisins to decorate some of the muffins. If he has 21 raisins, how many muffins can he decorate?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Mila is packing 18 jars into boxes. Each box will hold 4 jars. How many boxes will she fill?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Trey has 34 stickers to put in a sticker book. Each page in the book holds 5 stickers. How many pages will he need to hold his stickers?

• Add 1 to quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Candace is making wreaths. She needs 3 bows for each wreath. If she has 14 bows, how many wreaths can she make?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Lisa is putting 29 juice bottles into coolers for a picnic. Each cooler holds 6 juice bottles. How many coolers will Lisa need to hold all the juice bottles?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Daniel has 120 baseball cards. How many cards will he have left over if he gives his seven friends the same amount of cards?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainders

• The remainder is the answer

Valerie had a jug that contained 128 fl oz of salsa to put into bowls at a restaurant. She filled each bowl with 6 fl oz of salsa until there was not enough salsa left in the jug to completely fill another bowl. How many fluid ounces of salsa were left in the jug?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

A bakery is packaging cookies into bags of 8 cookies. The baker has 154 cookies. How many complete bags of cookies can be made?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer