Two Step Division Word Problems

Miriam had 63 flowers and 9 vases.

•She threw away 9 flowers that had broken stems.

•She put an equal number of all the flowers she had left into each vase.

How many flowers Miriam put into each vase?

Miriam put _____ flowers in each vase.

Sam had 48 cookies. He split the cookies equally into 8 bags. He sold 2 bags of cookies. How many cookies did Sam sell?

Sam sold _____ cookies.

To make posters, 6 students each collected 8 pictures of animals. The students put 4 animal pictures on each poster they made. Which equation shows one way to find the number of posters the students made?

 

• 6 + 8 + 4 = 18

• 6 x 8 ÷ 4 = 12

• 6 x 8 x 4 = 192

• 6 + 8 - 4 = 10

The pony at the carnival will take 12 kids per ride. If there are 72 kids waiting for a ride, how many rides will the ponies have to make?

• 6

• 84

• 60

• 80

What is the operation? Tommy has 46 crayons and splits them evenly into 2 bins. How many crayons are in each bin?

• Add (+)

• Subtract (-)

• Multiply (×)

• Divide (÷)

Ned poured 38 gallons of water into 6 buckets. He poured the same amount into each bucket. How much water did Ned pour into each bucket?

• 6 and 1/3

• 228

• 32

• 44

Mr. Anderson had 185 pieces of wood.  He sold 25 pieces of wood to his neighbor and stacked the rest of the wood into piles around his house.  Each pile of wood contained 40 pieces of wood.  Which equation can be used to find p, the number of piles of wood Mr. Anderson made?

• p = (185+25)+40 

• p = (185−25)−40 

• p=(185+25)×40 

• p=(185−25)÷40 

Ned poured 138 gallons of water into 6 buckets. He poured the same amount into each bucket. How much water did Ned pour into each bucket?

Coach bought 5 buckets of baseballs at the start of the season. Each bucket had 16 baseballs.

Coach divided the baseballs equally among 8 players.

How many baseballs did each player get?

• 80

• 10

• 29

• 128

Each pack of pencils contains 8 pencils. Sara bought 3 packs and divided them equally among 6 people. How many pencils did each person get?

• 24

• 4

• 17

• 5