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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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