Division Word Problems

A cereal box holds 18 cups of cereal.  Each serving is 2 cups.  How many servings are in the box?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 9

Kim mother wants to make 3 ribbons of equal length.  She has 21 inches of ribbon.  How long will each ribbon be?

• 12 inches

• 3 inches

• 7 inches

• 5 inches

At the fair, all 28 students want to ride the Twister.  Each car will hold 4 people.  How many cars will they need ?

• 3

• 8

• 7

• 9

If there are 13 girls on the volleyball team.  There will be 4 cars going .  Each car can hold 3 players.  How many girls will still need a ride?  13 ÷ 4 = 3 r 1

• 4

• 1

• 3

• 12

There were 241 pineapples at the farm. They were getting shipped to 24 stores in equal amounts. How many pineapples will each store get?

• 1

• 11

• 10

• 100

A teacher has 256 candies. If she wants to distribute them equally among 4 students, how many candies will each student get?

• 64

• 84

• 62

• 72

A restaurant needs to buy 55 new plates. If each box has five plates, how many boxes do they need to buy?

• 11

• 13

• 50

• 12

A restaurant needs to buy 655 new plates. If each box has five plates, how many boxes do they need to buy?

• 131

• 130

• 650

• 121

A farmer has 345 apples and wants to distribute them equally among 5 baskets. How many apples will be there in each basket?

• 83

• 72

• 57

• 69

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