Interpret the Remainder Word Problems

Molly has 23 pickles. A snack bag holds 5 pickles. If she fills as many bags as possible, how many more pickles will she need to fill the last bag?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

A website has games available to purchase for $5 each. If Lita has $23, how many games can she purchase?

• 4 R 3

• 4

• 5

• 4 3/5

A factory packed 85 teddy bears into large boxes for delivery to a toy store. Each large box held 9 teddy bears. The remaining bears were packed in small box. How many teddy bears were packed in the small box?

• 9R4

• 9

• 4

• 10

Meg has a new bookcase for her bedroom with 6 shelves. Each shelf holds 8 books. If Meg has 50 books, how many books will not fit on the bookcase?

• 6

• 6R2

• 7

• 2

Samantha has 835 pencils that she wants to share with her 4 friends. If the pencils are divided equally, how many pencils will each friend receive, and how many pencils will Samantha keep for herself?

A factory produced 901 teddy bears in a day. If they are packed into boxes of 8, how many full boxes can be filled, and how many teddy bears will be left unpacked?

Mr. and Mrs. Smith bought 942 candies for Halloween. If they decide to give them out in packets of 10, how many full packets can they create, and how many candies will remain?

Joe needs quarters to ride the bus. He took $14.87 to the bank to have it changed into quarters. How many did he get?

• Ignore remainder

• Round up to the next whole number

• Use the remainder to form a fraction or decimal

• The remainder is the answer

• F

• G

• H

• J

A farmer has 117 apples and wants to pack them equally into boxes. Each box can hold 8 apples. How many apples will be left after filling all the boxes he can?

• 5 apples

• 6 apples

• 7 apples

• 8 apples