Interpreting Remainders

An apple farmer picked 562 apples on Monday. He shipped an equal number of apples to 7 different stores and saved the rest for his family. How many apples did he save?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

A group of 347 people have signed up for a bus trip to a baseball game. Each bus holds a maximum of 42 passengers. How many buses will be needed to take all the people to the game?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Jaxon has 133 toy cars and wants to pack them up since they are moving to a new home. Each box he is using can hold 25 toy cars. How many toy cars will he have unpacked if he only uses 5 boxes?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Trey has 34 stickers to put in a sticker book. Each page in the book holds 5 stickers. How many pages will he need to hold his stickers?

• Add 1 to quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Mary will place cans of food in boxes to ship to a restaurant. She has 73 cans of food and needs to place 6 cans in each box. What is the greatest number of complete boxes of cans of food she can make with 73 cans?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Lilly has $18 to buy chocolate bars. How many chocolate bars can Lilly buy if each chocolate bar costs $5?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Jack is moving and needs to pack 38 books into small boxes. He   packs six books in each box.  How many books do not fit into a box?

• 6 books 

• 5 books 

• 1 book

• 2 books 

Kate baked 84 muffins. If each muffin tray holds 9 muffins, how many trays did Kate use?

• 9 trays

• 81 trays 

• 10 trays 

• 18 trays 

Sue has 55 inches of ribbon.  She wants to cut the ribbon into 6 equal pieces.  How long will each piece be?  

• 9 1/6 inches each, she should add the remainder as a fraction.  

• Each piece would be 9 inches and she should just throw away the extra.  

We have learned that we can't split people or animals in fraction pieces. So if they are the remainders in division problems we need to:  

• Use them as a fraction.  

• Use only the quotient.  

• Add 1 to the quotient.  

• Use only the remainder.