Division Word Problems Interpreting Remainders

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

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

There are 139 fourth-grade students going on a field trip. The school is using vans that can hold 9 students. How many vans are needed for the field trip?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Joan had 61 yards of yarn to use for her craft projects. She needs exactly 5 yards of yarn for each project. How many craft projects can Joan complete with the yarn?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

An apple farmer picked 562 apples on Monday. He shipped an equal number of apples to 7 different stores and saved the rest for his family. How many apples did he save?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Mary will place cans of food in boxes to ship to a restaurant. She has 73 cans of food and needs to place 6 cans in each box. What is the greatest number of complete boxes of cans of food she can make with 73 cans?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

A group of 347 people have signed up for a bus trip to a baseball game. Each bus holds a maximum of 42 passengers. How many buses will be needed to take all the people to the game?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Jaxon has 133 toy cars and wants to pack them up since they are moving to a new home. Each box he is using can hold 25 toy cars. How many toy cars will he have unpacked if he only uses 5 boxes?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Lilly has $18 to buy chocolate bars. How many chocolate bars can Lilly buy if each chocolate bar costs $5?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer