- RUNNING Brian runs 7 miles each day. In how
many days will Brian run 371 miles?
- DUMP TRUCKS A 15-cubic-yard dump truck must
haul 405 cubic yards of dirt to a construction site.
How many trips must the truck make?
- STOCKING SHELVES After receiving a delivery
of 288 bags of potato chips, a store clerk stocked
each shelf of an empty display with 36 bags. How
many shelves of the display did he stock with potato
chips?
- LUNCH TIME A fifth grade teacher received
50 half-pint cartons of milk to distribute evenly to
his class of 23 students. How many cartons did
each child get? How many cartons were left
over?
- BUBBLE WRAP A furniture manufacturer uses an
11-foot-long strip of bubble wrap to protect a lamp
when it is boxed and shipped to a customer. How
many lamps can be packaged in this way from a
200-foot-long roll of bubble wrap? How many feet
will be left on the roll?
- GARDENING A metal can holds 640 fluid
ounces of gasoline. How many times can the
68-ounce tank of a lawnmower be filled from the
can? How many ounces of gasoline will be left in the
can?
- BEVERAGES A plastic container holds 896 ounces
of punch. How many 6-ounce cups of punch can be
served from the container? How many ounces will be
left over?
- LIFT SYSTEMS If the bus weighs 58,000 pounds,
how much weight is on each jack?
- LOTTERY WINNERS In 2008, a group of 22 postal
workers, who had been buying Pennsylvania Lotto
tickets for years, won a $10,282,800 jackpot. If they
split the prize evenly, how much money did each
person win?
- TEXTBOOK SALES A store received $25,200 on
the sale of 240 algebra textbooks. What was the cost
of each book?
- DRAINING POOLS A 950,000-gallon pool is
emptied in 20 hours. How many gallons of water are
drained each hour?
99. MILEAGE A tour bus has a range of 700 miles on
one tank (140 gallons) of gasoline. How far does the
bus travel on one gallon of gas?
- WATER MANAGEMENT The Susquehanna
River discharges 1,719,000 cubic feet of water into
Chesapeake Bay in 45 seconds. How many cubic feet
of water is discharged in one second?
- ORDERING SNACKS How many dozen
doughnuts must be ordered for a meeting if
156 people are expected to attend, and each person
will be served one doughnut?
- TIME A millenniumis a period of time equal to
one thousand years. How many decades are in a
millennium?
- VOLLEYBALL A total of 216 girls are going to
play in a city volleyball league. How many girls
should be put on each team if the following
requirements must be met?
- All the teams are to have the same number
of players.
- A reasonable number of players on a team is
7 to 10.
- For scheduling purposes, there must be an
even number of teams (2, 4, 6, 8, and so on).
- WINDSCREENS A farmer intends to plant pine
trees 12 feet apart to form a windscreen for her
crops. How many trees should she buy if the length
of the field is 744 feet?
1.5 Dividing Whole Numbers 67
12 ft 12 ft
- ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS The typical starting salaries
for 2008 college graduates majoring in nursing,
marketing, and history are shown below. Complete
the last column of the table.
College major Yearly salary Monthly salary
Nursing $52,128
Marketing $43,464
History $35,952
Source: CNN.com/living
