Dividing Whole Numbers and Fractions Word Problems

• 63

• 9

Coach Peters has 12 gallons of water to fill buckets for field day.  If each bucket needs ⅓ of a gallon to fill, how many buckets can he fill?

• 3/12 bucket

• 12 and ⅓ buckets

• 36 buckets

• 4 buckets

16 friends share 4 Pop-Tarts equally.  what fraction of a Pop-Tart does each friend get? 

• 4

• 2/4

• 1/8

• 1/4

Danilsa has ½ cup of butter.  She pours the same amount into each of three popcorn cartons.  Which equation represents the fraction of the cup of butter, C, that is in each carton?

• 1/2 ÷ 1/3 = C

• 3 ÷ 1/2 = C

• 1/2 ÷ 3 = C

• 2 ÷ 3 = C

Eathan feeds his pet rabbit 1/8 gallon of pellets every day. If he has 2 gallons of rabbit food at home, how many days can he feed his rabbit before he needs to buy more food?

• 4

• 2/8

• 16

A farmer has 18 acres of land. He wants to divide it into 1/6 parts for different crops. How many acres will each part be?

• 12 acres

• 9 acres

• 6 acres

• 3 acres

A teacher has 25 markers to distribute among 1/5 of the students. How many markers will each student receive?

• 3

• 7

• 5

• 10

Shawn has a 2 quart container of mint chocolate chip ice cream. If each serving size 1/8 of gallon, how many servings of ice cream does Shawn have?

• 16

• 2/8

• 10

Wendy has 4 cups sliced carrots set aside as snacks for her and her friends. If everyone will have 1/4 cup of carrots for a snack, how many friends can share carrots?

• 16

• 4

• 1/4

A factory produced 40 toys. If each toy is packed in 1/4 of a box, how many boxes will be needed in total?

• 20

• 80

• 160

• 120