Division Word Problems

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 shirts

• 70 shirts

• 7 shirts

• 8 shirts

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

John bought 59 tickets at the state fair. He spent 29 tickets on food and decided to use the rest on rides. If each ride cost 6 tickets, how many rides could he go on?

• 30 rides

• 6 rides

• 5 rides

• 24 rides

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

A restaurant sold 42 sandwiches last week. How many sandwiches on average were sold each day?

• 7 sandwiches

• 5 sandwiches

• 42 sandwiches

• 6 sandwiches

For Halloween, Gwen received 19 pieces of candy from neighbors and 16 pieces from her older sister. If she only ate 5 pieces a day, how long would the candy last her?

• 35 days

• 7 days

• 5 days

• 8 days

The school's baseball team had 5 new players and 19 returning players. If the coach put them into groups with 3 players in each group, how many groups would there be?

• 7 groups

• 24 groups

• 27 groups

• 8 groups

Nancy had 41 files on her computer. She deleted 29 of them and put the rest into folders with 6 files in each one. How many folders did Nancy end up with?

• 2 folders

• 3 folders

• 9 folders

• 7 folders

Gwen was making baggies of cookies with 5 cookies in each bag. If she had 39 chocolate chip cookies and 11 oatmeal cookies, how many baggies could she make?

• 10 baggies

• 9 baggies

• 50 baggies

• 55 baggies

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.1

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

Tom had 36 pieces of clothing to wash. He put 18 of them in one load, but decided to split the rest into two equal loads. How many pieces of clothing could go in each of the small loads?

• 18 pieces

• 9 pieces

• 16 pieces

• 20 pieces

Maria's class is going on a field trip to the zoo. If each van can hold 8 people. If there are 40 students and 32 adults going, how many vans will they need?

• 8 vans

• 80 vans

• 9 vans

• 5 vans

There are 44 students trying out for the school's trivia teams. If 23 of them didn't get picked for the team and the rest were put into 3 groups, how many students would be in each group?

• 21 students

• 18 students

• 7 students

• 8 students