Division Word Problems — Examples & Practice
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- Word Problems with Division There is an important strategy for solving word problems. The key is to translate them into mathematical expressions. This is easier if you can pick …
By Hannah Bonville, Alex Federspiel, Jonathan Heller, Caroline K, Joshua Siktar
- Words to Math: Division In this section, we will learn to translate phrases into a mathematical expression by identifying key words that indicate division. When talking about di…
By Eunji Kwon, Alex Federspiel, Caroline K, Joshua Siktar
- (Video) Solving Multiplication and Division Word Problems by Ruth Erquiaga Ruth Erquiaga has a great explanation and strategy on how to identify and approach word problems. This…
By Jonathan Heller, Alex Federspiel, Joshua Siktar
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- Joseph ran a total linear distance of sss meters in ttt seconds. Write an expression for how fast Joseph ran, on average.
- Anthony has 400\400400 to buy video games. Video games cost ccc dollars each. Write an expression that gives (approximately) the number of video games Anthony can buy at this pr…
- Margery wants to spend 200200200 hours studying for the SATs. Excluding a certain number of days, xxx, which include weekends and holidays, she wants to study the same amount of…
- Julie makes an average number of YouTube videos per month, vvv. If Julie made eighty videos in total since she started, write an expression for how many months she's been making…
- Claire goes shopping nnn days per month. Write an algebraic expression for the percentage of the days that Claire does not go shopping in terms of nnn and mmm, where mmm is the …
- Martha is in the business of buying plots of land. She buys a plot of land that has an area of x2x^2x2. She wants to sub-divide the land equally into nnn square plots. What is t…
- A third of the people in a room went to sleep. Half of the remaining people started drinking tea. There were then 888 people left in the room who were awake but not drinking tea…
- At a restaurant, Mary and 333 of her friends order 141414 salads, 232323 bowls of soup, and 646464 loaves of bread. A salad costs 20\2020, a bowl of soup costs 70\7070, and a lo…
- In math, the word "per" refers to which operation?
- How does one find the speed of a car in meters per second?
- How do you share 181818 cookies between 333 people?
- How does your current work week compare to the original 141414 hour 666 day work week? Choose the closest answer.
- If you focus on your schoolwork for 404040 hours per week and sleep 888 hours each night, about what fraction of your non-working, waking hours would you spend maintaining those…
- Lori baked a tray of brownies for her club event. She cut the brownie into 303030 pieces. 161616 people attended the club event. On average, how many pieces can each person get?…
- It is exam week at Dakota's school. Usually, Dakota spends 222 hours a day studying. This week, he spend a total of 181818 hours studying. On average, how much more time did he …
- Abby, Bridget and Casey went to the arcade and got a total of 825825825 tickets. They decided to split those tickets evenly. How many tickets do they each get?
- A certain recipe calls for 34\frac{3}{4}43 cups of flour and 12\frac{1}{2}21 cups of water. Will is lazy so he wants to wash as few dishes as possible. If he only uses one mea…
- Kev is baking a birthday cake. He made roughly 500 grams500\text{ grams}500 grams of cake batter. He decides to make a 333 layer cake, the layers will be even. How many grams of…
- Crystal has 102,937,485102{,}937{,}485102,937,485 atoms. She would like to give them out equally to 555 friends. How many atoms does each friend get?
- If you get paid a total of ddd dollars, and you worked hhh hours, what expression represents how much you make per hour?
- Approximately, how many coins did pirate C end up taking?
- Kelly is baking some shortbread cookies for her class, and she wants to make sure everyone in her class gets the same whole number of cookies. She baked 242424 cookies and there…
- There are 151515 people in a class. There is a group project where people can be in groups of 222 or groups of 333. Which of following is not a possible total number of groups (…
- There are 128128128 ounces in 111 gallon. On average, I drink 757575 ounces of water per day. If there are 555 gallons of water in a water dispenser, how many days would it take…