Multi-Step Word Division Word Problems

Which operation involves splitting a total into equal groups?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

Jesse is buying Christmas presents for his 4 friends. He has $84 and he wants to spend an equal amount on each friend. How much will Jesse spend on each friend?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

Lila is making baskets of fruit to decorate for Kwanzaa. She has 22 apples, 19 bananas, and 7 oranges. If she puts an equal number of fruit into 3 baskets, how many pieces of fruit will be in each basket?

What is step 2?

• Multiply the answer from step 1 x 3

• Add the answer from step 1 + 3

• Subtract the answer from step 1 - 3

• Divide the answer from step 1 by 3

Jacob is making homemade ornaments to give to his family. He makes 45 glass ornaments and 55 wooden ornaments. There are 9 people in Jacob's family. If each family member gets an equal number of ornaments, how many ornaments will each person get? What is step 2?

• Divide the answer from step 1 by 9

• Multiply the answer from step 1 by 9

• Divide the answer from step 1 by 45

• Subtract the answer from step 1 from 45

Coach bought 5 buckets of baseballs at the start of the season. Each bucket had 16 baseballs.

Coach divided the baseballs equally among 8 players.

How many baseballs did each player get?

• 80

• 10

• 29

• 128

Each pack of pencils contains 8 pencils. Sara bought 3 packs and divided them equally among 6 people. How many pencils did each person get?

• 24

• 4

• 17

• 5

Jack Prelutsky was working on a new book of poems. The book is going to be divided into 6 sections. Originally, Prelutsky planned on writing 57 poems, but his publisher asked him to remove 21 poems so there could be an equal number of poems in each section. How many poems will go in each section of the book?

• 5 poems in each section

• 6 poems in each section

• 10 poems in each section

• 12 poems in each section

Frank loves to collect photographs. He has 355 photographs and an album with 5 pages in it. How many photographs can go on each page?

• 71

• 1775

• 360

• 45

Marissa owns 18 Christmas movies. Alyssa owns twice as many Christmas movies as Marissa. If they watch 3 Christmas movies everyday together, how many days will it take them to watch all of their movies?

What is step 2?

• Divide the answer from step 1 by 18

• Subtract the answer from step 1 from 18

• Add 18 plus 3

• Divide the answer from step 1 by 3

What 2 operations would you use to solve this word problem? 240 puppies are for sale at the Mega pet store. The puppies were shared equally between 8 smaller shops. One of those shops sold all their puppies for $300 each. How much did the puppy shop make?

• divide and multiply

• divide and add

• multiply and subtract

• add and multiply