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?

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

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?

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

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

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

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

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

Mr Eddy shared $268 equally among his 4 children.

How much did each child receive?

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

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

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

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

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

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

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

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.

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

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

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3