Dividing Decimals

Toby's faucet dripped a total of 1.92 liters of water in 24 hours. The faucet dripped the same amount each hour.

Find the exact amount of water that dripped each hour.

• 80

• 0.8

• 8

• 0.08

Karen divided 560.9 by 10³ and got a quotient of 0.5609. Julio thinks the quotient should be 5.609. Who is correct?

• Karen

• Julio

Three coworkers decided to buy fruit to share at lunctime. Antonio spent $1.47 on bananas. Laura spent $2.88 on apples. Suzanne spent $2.85 on oranges. They evenly divided the cost of the 3 types of fruit. How much did each person pay?

• 2.00

• 2.40

• 24

• 0.24

0.15 ÷ 0.3

• 0.5

• 0.05

• 5

• 0.15

A plumber cuts 21.48 meters of pipe into 3 equal pieces of length. How long is each piece of pipe?

A baker used 88.55 ounces of cornmeal to make 11 pans of cornbread. Each pan contains the same amount of cornmeal. How many ounces of cornmeal are in each pan of cornbread?

Kim used 43.68 liters of water during a 12-day camping trip. On average, how many liters of water did Kim use each day?

1.8 ÷ 0.2

• 9

• 90

• 0.9

• 0.09

45.6 ÷ 3 =

• 52

• 15.2

• 152

• 11.2

A bag of oranges costs $7.65. Mark and his 4 friends want to share the bag. How much will each person pay?

• $38.25 

• $1.53

• $2.00

• $1.13