Division Word Problems

William has 36 books.  He can put 9 books on each shelf in his bookshelf.  How many bookshelves can he fill with books?

• 4

• 9

• 12

• 36

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

A book shelf will hold 8 text books. Mrs. Thomas has 42 books. How many shelves will she need?

• 5

• 6

• 336

• 50

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

a bus holds 30 students. There are 100 students in 4th grade. How many buses will be needed for a field trip?

• 5

• 3,000

• 3

• 4

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

The students at EP Foster School collected 2,790 cans of fruit for Cheers for Children. Each student brought in 5 cans. How many students attend the school?

• 840 students

• 585 students

• 855 students

• 558 students

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

There are 5,896 beads in a barrel at a factory. These beads will be sold in packets of 4. How many full packets can be made from the beads in the barrel?

• 1,474 full packets

• 1,384 full packets

• 1,447 full packets

• 1,394 full packets

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

John has 8 cabinets, he splits 139 papers between 7 cabinets. He put the remaining papers in the 8th cabinet. How many papers did he put in the 8th cabinet?

• 19

• 20

• 6

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Yudith has 19 red shirt and 37 black shirts. She wants to put them into 8 equal groups. How many will be in each group?

• 56

• 70

• 7

• 560

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Zachary has 18 pieces of candy corn. He is going to share his candy corn equally with 2 friends. How many candy corn will Zachary and his 2 friends get if he shares them equally?

• 9

• 6

• 17

• It will NOT be evenly shared

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Melia is packing gift boxes for her nine friends. She wants 72 items to be shared with her friends. Each gift box can only hold four items. How many gift boxes does Melia need?

• 8

• 9

• 16

• 18

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Jordan brought four plates of cookies to share with his tennis team. There are nine cookies on each plate. How many cookies does each teammate get if there are six teammates?

• 27

• 5

• 36

• 6

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3