Interpreting Remainders

A screen printing shop makes 736 t-shirts. A shipping box can hold 28 t-shirts. How many boxes are needed to ship all of the t-shirts?

• 9 boxes

• 26 boxes

• 27 boxes

• 8 boxes

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

During summer vacation, Amanda ran a lemonade stand. She bought a total of 65 lemons.  Each batch of lemonade needs 6 lemons.  How many full batches can she make? 

• 10 - ignore the remainder

• 11 - round it up

• 5  - remainder is the answer

• 10 5/6 - turn it into a fraction

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

The box of diapers had 136 diapers in it.  The hospital nursery had 9 babies. How many diapers do they have for each baby? 

• 15 - ignore the remainder

• 16 - round up

• 1 - the remainder is the answer

• 15 1/9 - turn it into a fraction

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

Jackson is moving and needs to pack 38 books into small boxes. He can pack six books in each box. How many books do not fit into a box?

• 6 books

• 5 books

• 1 book

• 2 books

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

Dave is packing 23 sweaters into boxes. Each box will hold 3 sweaters. How many boxes will he need in all?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Mila is packing 18 jars into boxes. Each box will hold 4 jars. How many boxes will she fill?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

Candace is making wreaths. She needs 3 bows for each wreath. If she has 14 bows, how many wreaths can she make?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Lisa is putting 29 juice bottles into coolers for a picnic. Each cooler holds 6 juice bottles. How many coolers will Lisa need to hold all the juice bottles?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Daniel has 120 baseball cards. How many cards will he have left over if he gives his seven friends the same amount of cards?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainders

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

Valerie had a jug that contained 128 fl oz of salsa to put into bowls at a restaurant. She filled each bowl with 6 fl oz of salsa until there was not enough salsa left in the jug to completely fill another bowl. How many fluid ounces of salsa were left in the jug?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2