Division Multi-Step Word Problems

There are 6156 students in a school district. If there are 27 schools, how many students are each school, on average?

• 219 students

• 228 students

• 22 students

• 23 students

Sally purchased a new jewelry set for $4,260. If she plans to make payments each month for 20 months, how much will each payment be?

• $178

• $21.30

• $355

• $213

At DisneyWorld, over a 122 days period, 50,874 passengers rode the Tea Cups Ride. I want to find out how many passenger rode the Tea Cups per day. In this scenario, the passengers represent which of the following?

• Dividend

• Divisor

• Quotient

Mrs. Taylor's homeroom class raised $6,156 in the school fundraiser. There are 27 students in her homeroom. How much did each student raise in the fundraiser, on average?

Frank loves to collect photographs. He has 355 photographs and an album with 5 pages in it. How many photographs can go on each page?

• 71

• 1775

• 360

• 45

Coach bought 5 buckets of baseballs at the start of the season. Each bucket had 16 baseballs.

Coach divided the baseballs equally among 8 players.

How many baseballs did each player get?

• 80

• 10

• 29

• 128

Frank loves to collect photographs. He has 355 photographs and an album with 5 pages in it. How many photographs can go on each page?

• 71

• 1775

• 360

• 45

There are 58 students trying out for the school's basketball teams. If 28 of them didn't get picked for the team and the rest were put into 5 groups, how many students would be in each group?

• 6 students

• 7 students

• 150 groups

• 30 groups

Each pack of pencils contains 8 pencils. Sara bought 3 packs and divided them equally among 6 people. How many pencils did each person get?

• 24

• 4

• 17

• 5

Jack Prelutsky was working on a new book of poems. The book is going to be divided into 6 sections. Originally, Prelutsky planned on writing 57 poems, but his publisher asked him to remove 21 poems so there could be an equal number of poems in each section. How many poems will go in each section of the book?

• 5 poems in each section

• 6 poems in each section

• 10 poems in each section

• 12 poems in each section