Multi Step Word Problems With Division

Paul runs a small farm. After the last harvest, he weighed the amount of squash he collected. He had 42.2 total pounds of green and yellow squash. If yellow squash made up 1/5 of the harvest by weight, how many pounds of green squash did he have? Write your answer as a whole number, decimal, fraction, or mixed number. Simplify any fractions.

15 How many inches were cut?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Kelly made fruit punch to serve at a party for her chess team. She mixed 1 2/5 liters of cranberry juice and 1 3/5 liters of pineapple juice together. Then, she split the fruit punch evenly among 9 glasses. How much fruit punch did Kelly pour into each glass? Write your answer as a whole number, fraction, or mixed number. Simplify any fractions.

David has 3 1/2 cups of blueberries. He uses 1/4 of a cup of blueberries to make a breakfast smoothie. He uses 1/2 of the remaining blueberries to make blueberry pancakes. How many cups of blueberries does he use for the pancakes?

Write your answer as a whole number, fraction, or mixed number. Simplify any fractions.

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?

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

Frank loves to collect photographs. He has 355 photographs and an album with 5 pages in it. How many photographs can go on each page?

• 71

• 1775

• 360

• 45

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

Jack Prelutsky was working on a new book of poems. The book is going to be divided into 6 sections. Originally, Prelutsky planned on writing 57 poems, but his publisher asked him to remove 21 poems so there could be an equal number of poems in each section. How many poems will go in each section of the book?

• 5 poems in each section

• 6 poems in each section

• 10 poems in each section

• 12 poems in each section

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