Division Word Problems

It takes two grams of plastic to make a ruler. If a company had thirteen grams of plastic, how many entire rulers could they make?

• 6 rulers

• 7 rulers

• 1 gram

• What color were the rulers?

Jocelin uploaded 660 pics to Facebook. If she put the pics into 4 albums with the same number of photos in each album, how many photos were in each album? 

• 656 photos

• 165 photos

• 64 albums

• What is Facebook?

A food company has forty-two kilograms of food to put into boxes. If each box gets exactly five kilograms, how many full boxes will they have? 

• 8 full boxes

• 9 full boxes

• 42 kilograms

• 5 kilograms

Farmer Brown had 576 apples. He packed them equally into 12 boxes. How many apples were there in each box?

Mr Eddy shared $268 equally among his 4 children.

How much did each child receive?

Mrs. Vick has 4 boxes of drum sticks. There are 9 drum sticks in each box. Mrs. Vick them gave an equal number of drum sticks to 6 classes. How many drum sticks did each class receive?

• 7

• 6

• 30

• 36

232 people are going on a trip. There are 4 busses and all of them are full. How many people are on each bus?

• 52 people

• 58 people

• 51 people

• 60 people

Ms. Ulfsrud has 64 colored pencils in supply basket. She has 24 colored pencils in another supply basket. She wants to split her colored pencils up equally among 8 groups. How many colored pencils will each group receive?

• 11

• 80

• 8

• 5

A teacher buys 24 books. If she gives each student 4 books, how many students are there?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 8

Answer explanation

Dividing the total number of books (24) by the number of books each student receives (4) gives the number of students, which is 6.

I cut my cake into 16 pieces to share with my friends. There are four of us. How many pieces will each of us get?

• 2

• 4

• 3

• 6