Multi Step Division Word Problems

Mrs. McCarty receives 1,530 books to sell at the book fair. She puts the books into bags. Each bag can hold 9 books. The book fair was opened for 5 days and sold the same number of book bags each day. How many book bags did Mrs. McCarty sell at the book fair each day?

• 306

• 170

• 34

• 58

A group of volunteers collected 3,456 books. They packed the books into boxes of 8. They plan to donate the boxes of books to 6 city libraries. The group wants to take the same number of boxes of books to each library. How many boxes of books will each library get?

• 432

• 72

• 504

• 56

What 2 operations would you use to solve this word problem? 240 puppies are for sale at the Mega pet store. The puppies were shared equally between 8 smaller shops. One of those shops sold all their puppies for $300 each. How much did the puppy shop make?

• divide and multiply

• divide and add

• multiply and subtract

• add and multiply

There were 250 monkeys placed in one part of the zoo, during the day. There were 100 more monkeys that were placed in another part of the zoo. When all the monkey were put inside, at the end of the day, they were evenly split up between 7 cages. How any monkeys were in each cage?

• 50 monkeys

• 75 monkeys

• 350 monkeys

• 18 monkeys

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

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

Isabella had 48 books in her room. She split them up equally into 8 piles. She then sold one of those piles for $4.83 for each book. How much money did she make?

• $75.00

• $18.33

• $28.98

• $6.00

Jesse is buying Christmas presents for his 4 friends. He has $84 and he wants to spend an equal amount on each friend. How much will Jesse spend on each friend?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

Lila is making baskets of fruit to decorate for Kwanzaa. She has 22 apples, 19 bananas, and 7 oranges. If she puts an equal number of fruit into 3 baskets, how many pieces of fruit will be in each basket? What is step 2?

• Multiply the answer from step 1 x 3

• Add the answer from step 1 + 3

• Subtract the answer from step 1 - 3

• Divide the answer from step 1 by 3