Division Problem Solving

Mr. Blose has 2,154 marbles he is putting into jars. Each jar only holds 6 marbles. How many jars will Mr. Blose need to fit all his marbles in a jar?

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

Mrs. White is putting extra snacks into buckets. She has 238 snacks and each bucket holds 8 snacks. How many buckets will she need for all of the snacks? Must interpret the remainder. DURT

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Mrs. Miller is organizing 2,981 tiger stickers into piles to hand out. Each tiger sticker needs to be in a pile and she can have no more than 3 in each pile. How many piles will Mrs. Miller need to make for all the tickets? Must interpret the remainder. DURT

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

Mr. Gonzales is putting new shingles on his roof. He needs to hammer down each shingle with 3 nails. He starts with a full box of 216 nails. Which number sentence can be used to find how many shingles Mr. Gonzales can hammer down with a full box of nails?

• 3 x 216 = 648

• 216 + 3 = 219

• 216 ÷ 3 = 72

• 216 – 3 = 213

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CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

Travis and his family went to Florida over their summer vacation. The total distance they traveled from Houston, TX to Orlando, FL was 966 miles. The family drove the same distance each day for 3 days to reach their destination in Florida. How many miles did they travel in one day?

• 966

• 3

• 369

• 322

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

Richard and his family went to Florida on their summer vacation. Richard wants to put 197 pictures he took while on vacation into a photo album. He can place 4 photos on each page of the album. About how many pages does Richard need in order to place all of the pictures into the photo album?

• 49

• 48 r 5

• 50

• 4

The fourth-grade students at Smith Elementary visited the park on a field trip. One hundred sixty-seven students will tour the park riding in cars on a train. Each train car seats a maximum of 8 students.

In order to transport all of the students at one time, what is the minimum number of train cars that will be needed?

• 20 r 7

• 21

• 19

• 3

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CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

There are 3,164 seats at a football stadium. The stadium has 7 sections, and the same number of seats are in each section.

How many seats are in each section?

• 452

• 462

• 503

• 522

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

A coat distribution center needs to ship 1,975 winter coats to a local store. They can place exactly 8 winter coats into one medium-sized box. How many medium-sized boxes will the distribution center need in order to ship all of the coats to the local store?

• 8

• 1,975

• 247

• 246 r 8

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

Michael put 402 Lego bricks in 6 rows for a Spaceship model. How many bricks did he put in each row?

• 67

• 100

• 6

• 402

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2