Lesson 4.

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Divide Using Partial Quotients Number and Operations in Base
Essential Question How can you use partial quotients Ten—4.NBT.B.6
to divide by 1-digit divisors? MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES
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At camp, there are 5 players on each lacrosse
team. If there are 125 people on lacrosse teams, • Underline what you are asked to find.
how many teams are there? • Circle what you need to use.
• What operation can you use to find the
number of teams?

One Way Use partial quotients.

In the partial quotient method of dividing,
multiples of the divisor are subtracted from
the dividend and then the partial quotients Partial
are added together. Quotients
Divide. 125 ÷5 Write. 5q125
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5 qww
125
10 × _
STEP 1
−
_ 10
Start by subtracting a greater multiple,
such as 10 times the divisor. For example,
you know that you can make at least
_ 10 × _
− 10
10 teams of 5 players.

Continue subtracting until the remaining

number is less than the multiple, 50. −
_ 5×_ + 5
______
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STEP 2

Subtract smaller multiples, such as 5, 2, Math MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES 8

or 1 times the divisor until the remaining Talk
Use Repeated Reasoning
number is less than the divisor. In other How did you use partial
words, keep going until you no longer quotients to solve the
have enough players to make a team. problem?

Then add the partial quotients to find the

quotient.

So, there are _ lacrosse teams.

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Another Way Use rectangular models to record
the partial quotients.

Jarod and Ana also found the number of teams using partial quotients.
They recorded the partial quotients using rectangular models. They
each still had 25 as the quotient.
Jarod Ana

5 125 5 125

10 20
125 125
5 50 75 −
_ 5 100 25 −
_
75 25
10 10 20 5
75 25
5 50 50 25 −
_ 5 100 25 −
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25 0
10 10 5
25 20 + 5 = _
5 50 50 25 −
_
0

10 + 10 + 5 = _
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1. Lacrosse is played on a field 330 ft long. How many yards long
is a lacrosse field? (3 feet = 1 yard)

Divide. Use partial quotients.

3qww
330
−
___ 100 × 100
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__ 10 × + 10
_______

So, the lacrosse field is _ yards long.

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Divide. Use partial quotients. Divide. Use rectangular models to record the
partial quotients.

2. 3qw
225 3. 428 ÷ 4 = _

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2 and 3 a different way?
Divide. Use partial quotients.

4. 7qw
224 5. 7qw
259 6. 8qw
864 7. 6qw
738

Divide. Use rectangular models to record the partial quotients.

8. 328 ÷ 2 = _ 9. 475 ÷ 5 = _ 10. 219 ÷ 3 = _ 11. 488 ÷ 4 = _
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PRACTICE 2
Use Reasoning What is the least number you can
divide by 5 to get a three-digit quotient? Explain how you found
your answer.

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Rob’s Sports Cards
an album. How many pages will he fill?
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Sport Number of Cards
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14. DEEPER Rob filled 5 plastic boxes with hockey Basketball 189
cards. There were the same number of cards in each Football 96
box. How many cards did he put in each box? How Hockey 64
many cards were left over?

15. SMARTER Rob filled 3 fewer plastic boxes with

football cards than basketball cards. He filled 9 boxes
with basketball cards. How many boxes did he fill with
football cards? How many football cards were in each
box?

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16. DEEPER Marshall can buy 5 T-shirts for $60. If each

shirt costs the same amount, what is the cost of
4 T-shirts?

17. SMARTER Use partial quotients. Fill in the

blanks.

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_ 10 × 5

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Lesson 4.8
Divide Using Partial Quotients
COMMON CORE STANDARD—4.NBT.B.6
Use place value understanding and properties
of operations to perform multi-digit
arithmetic.
Divide. Use partial quotients.

1. 8qw
184 2. 6qw
258 3. 5qw
630
280 10 × 8 10
104
280 10 × 8 10
24
224 3 × 8 +3
0 23

Divide. Use rectangular models to record the partial quotients.

4. 246 4 3 5 5. 126 4 2 5 6. 605 4 5 5

Divide. Use either way to record the partial quotients.

7. 492 4 3 5 8. 198 4 9 5 9. 692 4 4 5

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10. Allison took 112 photos on vacation. She 11. WRITE Math Explain how to use partial
wants to put them in a photo album that quotients to divide 235 by 5.
holds 4 photos on each page. How many
pages can she fill?

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Lesson Check (4.NBT.B.6)
1. Annaka used partial quotients to divide 2. Mel used partial quotients to find the
145 ÷ 5. What could be the partial quotients quotient of 378 ÷ 3. What could be
Annaka used? the partial quotients that Mel found?

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3. What are the partial products of 42 × 5? 4. Mr. Watson buys 4 gallons of paint that
cost $34 per gallon. How much does
Mr. Watson spend on paint?

5. Use the area model to find the product of 6. An adult male lion eats about 108 pounds of
28 × 32. meat per week. About how much meat does
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