Division Word Problems

a bus holds 30 students. There are 100 students in 4th grade. How many buses will be needed for a field trip?

• 5

• 3,000

• 3

• 4

The students at EP Foster School collected 2,790 cans of fruit for Cheers for Children. Each student brought in 5 cans. How many students attend the school?

• 840 students

• 585 students

• 855 students

• 558 students

There are 5,896 beads in a barrel at a factory. These beads will be sold in packets of 4. How many full packets can be made from the beads in the barrel?

• 1,474 full packets

• 1,384 full packets

• 1,447 full packets

• 1,394 full packets

Logan, Abdiel, Leo, and JJ bought 88 green slimy candy bars. They wanted to divide the candy evenly. How many candy bars would each kid get, and how many would be left over?

• Each kid would get 22 green slimy candy bars and none would be left over.

• Each kid would get 352 green slimy candy bars and none would be left over.

• Each kid would get 2 green slimy candy bars and 8 would be left over.

• Each kid would get 20 green slimy candy bars and 2 would be left over.

Yudith has 19 red shirt and 37 black shirts. She wants to put them into 8 equal groups. How many will be in each group?

• 56

• 70

• 7

• 560

Darren has 21 pencils and seven bags. If he puts the same number of pencils in each bag, how many pencils will be in each bag?

• Subtraction

• Addition

• Multiplication

• Division

John has 8 cabinets, he splits 139 papers between 7 cabinets. He put the remaining papers in the 8th cabinet. How many papers did he put in the 8th cabinet?

• 19

• 20

• 6

Melia is packing gift boxes for her nine friends. She wants 72 items to be shared with her friends. Each gift box can only hold four items. How many gift boxes does Melia need?

• 8

• 9

• 16

• 18

Zachary has 18 pieces of candy corn. He is going to share his candy corn equally with 2 friends. How many candy corn will Zachary and his 2 friends get if he shares them equally?

• 9

• 6

• 17

• It will NOT be evenly shared

Jordan brought four plates of cookies to share with his tennis team. There are nine cookies on each plate. How many cookies does each teammate get if there are six teammates?

• 27

• 5

• 36

• 6