Estimate Decimal Division

To find a number that is close to an exact amount

• exponent

• remainder

• rounding

• estimate

3 friends went to a restaurant and had a bill totally $42.99. If they split the bill evenly, how much will each person pay?

• $143.30

• $14.33

• $128.97

• $13.43

A candy store owner has 8.32 pounds of jelly beans.  If she puts the jelly beans into 8 jars, how much candy will go in each jar?

• 4

• 1.04

• 1.40

• 66.56

When you move the decimal in the divisor, what happens in the dividend?

• You raise the decimal straight up

• Nothing

• You put a zero in the front

• The decimal moves the same amount in the dividend that it moved in the divisor.

Mrs. Linda has 17.16 cups of brownie mix. If each brownie uses 0.33 cups of mix, how many brownies can Mrs. Linda make?

• 52

• 53

• 54

• 22

Mrs. Teshin has a piece of cloth that is 4.5 yards long. She wants to cut it into pieces that are .25 yards long. How many pieces of cloth will she have?

• 1.8

• 18

• 1.125

• 4.75

$18.36÷6

• 3.06

• 306

• 30.6

• 306

Theresa pays $16.56 for 4 pounds of tomatoes. What is the cost of 1 pound of tomatoes?

• $4.14

• $41.40

• $.41

• $414

A number that is close to the exact amount.

• Quotient

• Estimate

• Compatible Numbers

• Hundredth

If you estimate the quotient of 6.3 ÷ 1.5 using rounding, what is the estimated quotient?

• 4.0

• 3.0

• 4.5

• 3.5