Division Multi-Step Word Problems

Russell had 52 plastic cups. He arranged them on trays that can hold 4 cups. How many trays did Russell need?

• 15

• 12

• 13

• 14

Sally and Byron mow lawns in the summer. Sally mows 5 lawns each week. Byron mows three times as many lawns each week as Sally. Byron gets paid $20 for each lawn he mows. How much money does Byron get paid each week? Use the strip diagram in the picture to help solve the problem.

• $15

• $25

• $100

• $300

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

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

If the divisor is 78 and the dividend is 70,434 what is the quotient?

• 900

• 903

• 8103

• 813

Nick and Nicholas are arguing about the problem " There were 392,196 pieces of candy in the Trick or Treat bowl. If the bowl of candy was shared equally between 87 kids how many pieces of candy were not taken?" Nick says there is a remainder. Nicholas says there isn't. What is the remainder in this problem?

• R 69

• R 83

• R 0

• 4508

Rocky Fork Middle was collecting green beans for a canned food drive. Student Counsel has to put the food collected into boxes. If each box can hold 54 cans and the school collected 5,505, how many complete boxes will there be?

• 102

• 94

• 101

• 51

Mrs. Laurence just bought a new car for 26,304. She plans to pay her car off in 24 months. Mr. Gannon just bought a new car for 20,480 and plans to pay his car off in 20 months. How much more money a month does Mrs. Laurence pay in her car payment?

• $72

• $4

• $5,824

• They pay the exact same amount

A farmer grew 1,891 pumpkins for the elementary school field trip season. If he divides his pumpkins up into groups of 62 how many pumpkins will be in the incomplete group?

• 32

• 301

• 30

• 31