Division with Repeated Subtraction Word Problems

Division is also known as repeated subtraction.

The process of sharing equally

To share or separate into equal groups or equal parts

Devin shipped 108 glass bowls to his mother. If he divided the bowls equally among 12 boxes, how many bowls did Devin put in each box?

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Ronald bakes 16 cookies and divides them equally into 4 boxes to give to his cousins. How many cookies does each cousin receive?

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Carolyn made cookies for a party. She made a total of 72 cookies. Forty-eight cookies were chocolate chip cookies. The rest of the cookies were sugar cookies. She will put the sugar cookies in 2 packages with the same number of cookies in each package.

Which diagram shows a way to find n, the number of sugar cookies that will be in each package?

Mr. Anderson had 185 pieces of wood.  He sold 25 pieces of wood to his neighbor and stacked the rest of the wood into piles around his house.  Each pile of wood contained 40 pieces of wood.  Which equation can be used to find p, the number of piles of wood Mr. Anderson made?

The total amount that will be shared equally

The number another number will be divided by; may represent the number of groups or how many in each group