Use a strategy you have learned.
- A bus seats 52 passengers.
How many buses are needed
to carry 795 passengers from
the hotel to the state fair?
Explain how to use compatible
numbers to solve this problem.
- In one week, a hospital’s
cafeteria serves 5325 meals.
About how many meals are
served a day?
Estimate the quotient.
- 58 33 2. 825 18 3. 395 24 4. 7959 43
- 29 9 1 9 6. 45 7 9 2 1 7. 27 5 9 7 5 8. 19 8 4 1 9. 38 6 4 1 7
Divide and check.
- 33 6 6 11. 31 9 6 12. 24 8 9 13. 41 $.8 2 14. 23 $.9 2
- 42 1 4 6 16. 34 $ 2 .3 8 17. 83 $ 2 .4 9 18. 24 1 0 9 19. 54 2 3 7
- 66 5 4 2 21. 76 $ 5 .3 2 22. 49 2 0 2 23. 31 $ 1 .2 4 24. 99 8 2 8
- 45 6 7 8 26. 35 7 4 5 27. 42 7 7 0 28. 25 $ 9 .0 0 29. 41 8 5 6 5
- 18 5 5 4 6 31. 15 $ 1 .8 0 32. 15 1 8 7 33. 88 9 5 0 4 34. 73 $ 7 9 .5 7
Use these dividends and divisors to make division exercises
for the following:
Dividends Divisors
1440 2820 40 20
- A quotient between 60 and 100 with no remainder.
- A quotient less than 100 with a remainder of 20.
- A quotient greater than 100.
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