Interpreting Remainders

Mr. Bull bought a package of Skittles with 341 pieces of candy.  He split them evenly among his 5 groups and ate the rest.  How many did he save for next year?

• 68 - ignore the remainder

• 1 - remainder is the answer

• 69 - round it up

• 68 1/68 - turn it into a fraction

A bagel shop has 138 bagels to be packed into boxes of 12. The extra bagels are given to the workers. How many bagels do the workers get?

• 12 - round up

• 11 - ignore the remainder

• 6 - remainder is the answer

• 11 6/12 - turn it into a fraction

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

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

If you divide 7777 by 9, what is the remainder?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

If you divide 2222 by 7, what is the remainder?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

35 ÷ 4 =

• 8

• 8 R 2

• 8 R 3

• 8 R 8

75 ÷ 9

• 6 r3

• 8 r3

• 6 r5

• 7 r3

37 ÷ 5 =

• 7 r 2

• 5 r 2

• 4 r 4

• 6 r 7

17 ÷ 4 =

• 6 r 1

• 5 r 1

• 4 r 2

• 4 r 1