Division Word Problems

It takes 62 apples to make a pie. Beverly has 744 apples. How many pies can she make?

• 12

• 21

• 15

• 14

There were 1515 ice cream cones at a birthday party. The ice cream cones were placed on 15 plates. How many ice cream cones are on each plates?

• 105

• 501

• 101

• 100

Sami, Joeli, Angel, and Eli 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.

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?

Pablo was building a hotel downtown. He bought 399 lamps to put in the rooms. If each room gets 7 lamps, how many rooms does the hotel have?

• hotel would never work in this town

• 56 lamps

• 57 rooms

• 2,793 rooms

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

Sophia and Maddie baked 40 cookies. If they share them equally, how many cookies does each girl get?

• 5

• 10

• 20

• 40

Abigail planted 30 pumpkin seeds equally in 5 rows.  How many pumpkin seeds did Abigail plant in each row?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 8

Shontal had 70 pine cones. She divided them equally into 10 bowls. How many pine cones are in each bowl?

• 10

• 70

• 7

• 700