School-Home

2
Chapter

Letter compatible numbers Numbers that

are easy to compute with mentally

dividend The number that is to be

divided in a division problem
Dear Family, divisor The number that divides the
dividend
During the next few weeks, our math class will be
learning about dividing three- and four-digit whole quotient The number, not including
the remainder, that results from
numbers. We will also learn how to interpret remainders. dividing

You can expect to see homework that provides practice remainder The amount left over
when a number cannot be divided
with division of three- and four-digit dividends by one- equally
and two-digit divisors.
Here is a sample of how your child will be taught to
divide a three-digit number by a one-digit divisor.

Divide Three-Digit Numbers

This is how we will divide three-digit numbers. Tips

Identifying Patterns
Solve. 268 4 5
in Division
Tips
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 When estimating to place
the first digit, it is important
Estimate to place the Divide the tens. Divide the ones.
to recognize patterns with
first digit in the quotient.
5 53 r3 multiples of 10, 100, and
250 4 5 5 50 5qw
268 5qw
268 1,000. Complete the division
So, place the first digit in 225 225 with basic facts, then attach
18 18 the same number of zeros to
the tens place.
215 the dividend and the quotient.
5 3 36 4 4 5 9
5qw
268 so, 36,000 4 4 5 9,000.

Activity
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Plan a vacation for the summer. Research the distance to the destination
from your home. You can spend no more than one week traveling to the
destination, and you must travel the same number of miles each day.
Decide how many days you will spend traveling. Then find how many
miles you need to travel each day.

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Carta
2
Capítulo

para la casa
números compatibles Números con los
que se pueden hacer cálculos mentales
fácilmente

dividendo El número que se va a dividir

en un problema de división
Querida familia,
divisor El número entre el que se divide
Durante las próximas semanas en la clase de matemáticas el dividendo
aprenderemos a dividir números enteros de tres y cuatro cociente El número, sin incluir al residuo,
dígitos. También aprenderemos a interpretar los residuos. que resulta de la división

Llevaré a la casa tareas con actividades para practicar residuo La cantidad que sobra cuando
un número no se puede dividir en partes
la división de dividendos de tres y cuatro dígitos entre iguales
divisores de uno y dos dígitos.
Este es un ejemplo de la manera como aprenderemos a dividir
un número de tres dígitos entre un número de un dígito.

Dividir números de tres dígitos

Este es un ejemplo de cómo dividir números de tres dígitos. Pistas

Identificar patrones en la
Resuelve 268 4 5
división
PASO 1 PASO 2 PASO 3 Pist
as el primer
Al estimar para colocar
dígito, es importante identificar
Estima para colocar el Divide las decenas. Divide las unidades. patrones con múltiplos de 10,
primer dígito del cociente. 100 y 1000. Completa la división
5 53 r3
250 4 5 5 50 5qw
268 5qw
268 con operaciones básicas, luego
225 225 agrega el mismo número de
Por lo tanto, coloca el 18 18 ceros al dividendo y al cociente.
primer dígito en el lugar 215
36 4 4 5 9
de las decenas. 3
Por lo tanto,
5 36,000 4 4 5 9,000
5qw
268

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Planeen unas vacaciones de verano. Investiguen cuál es la distancia desde

su casa hasta el destino. Sólo tienen una semana para hacer el viaje y deben
recorrer el mismo número de millas cada día. Decidan cuántas millas deben
recorrer cada día.

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Lesson 2.1
Name
Place the First Digit

Divide.

1. 4qw
388 2. 4qw
457 3. 8qw
712 4. 9qw
204

97
4qw
388
236
28
228
0

___ 97 ___ ___ ___

5. 2,117 4 3 6. 520 4 8 7. 1,812 4 4 8. 3,476 4 6

___ ___ ___ ___

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9. The school theater department made $2,142 10. Andreus made $625 mowing yards. He
on ticket sales for the three nights of their worked for 5 consecutive days and earned the
play. The department sold the same number same amount of money each day. How much
of tickets each night and each ticket cost $7. money did Andreus earn per day?
How many tickets did the theater department
sell each night?

______ ______

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Lesson Check
1. Kenny is packing cans into bags at the food 2. Liz polishes rings for a jeweler. She can
bank. He can pack 8 cans into each bag. polish 9 rings per hour. How many hours
How many bags will Kenny need for will it take her to polish 315 rings?
1,056 cans?
A 45 hours
A 133
B 35 hours
B 132
C 25 hours
C 131
D 15 hours
D 130

Spiral Review
3. Fiona uses 256 fluid ounces of juice to make 4. Len wants to write the number 100,000
1 bowl of punch. How many fluid ounces of using a base of 10 and an exponent. What
juice will she use to make 3 bowls of punch? number should he use as the exponent?
(Lesson 1.7) (Lesson 1.4)

A 56 fluid ounces A 4
B 128 fluid ounces B 5
C 512 fluid ounces C 10
D 768 fluid ounces D 100,000

5. Family passes to an amusement park cost 6. Gary is catering a picnic. There will be
$54 each. Which expression can be used to 118 guests at the picnic, and he wants each
find the cost in dollars of 8 family passes? guest to have a 12-ounce serving of salad.
(Lesson 1.3) How much salad should he make? (Lesson 1.7)

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B (8 1 50) 3 (8 1 4) B 1,180 ounces

C (8 3 50) 1 (8 3 4) C 1,416 ounces
D (8 3 50) 3 (8 3 4) D 1,516 ounces

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Lesson 2.2
Name
Divide by 1-Digit Divisors
Divide.

1. 4qw
724 2. 5qw
312 3. 278 4 2 4. 336 4 7

181
4qw
724
24
32
232
04
2 4
0

___ 181 ___ ___ ___

Find the value of n in each equation. Write what n represents

in the related division problem.
5. n 5 3 3 45 6. 643 5 4 3 160 1 n 7. n 5 6 3 35 1 4

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8. Randy has 128 ounces of dog food. He feeds 9. Angelina bought a 64-ounce can of lemonade
his dog 8 ounces of food each day. How many mix. She uses 4 ounces of mix for each pitcher
days will the dog food last? of lemonade. How many pitchers of lemonade
can Angelina make from the can of mix?

______ ______

Chapter 2 P33
Lesson Check
1. A color printer will print 8 pages per minute. 2. A postcard collector has 1,230 postcards.
How many minutes will it take to print a If she displays them on pages that hold
report that has 136 pages? 6 cards each, how many pages does she need?
A 18 minutes A 230
B 17 minutes B 215
C 16 minutes C 205
D 15 minutes D 125

Spiral Review
3. Francis is buying a stereo system for $196. 4. A bakery bakes 184 loaves of bread in 4 hours.
She wants to pay for it in four equal monthly How many loaves does the bakery bake in
installments. What is the amount she will pay 1 hour? (Lesson 2.2)
each month? (Lesson 2.1)
A 736
A $39
B 180
B $49
C 92
C $192
D 46
D $784

5. Marvin collects trading cards. He stores 6. Which number has the digit 7 in the
them in boxes that hold 235 cards each. ten-thousands place? (Lesson 1.2)
If Marvin has 4 boxes full of cards, how many
cards does he have in his collection?
A 810,745
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A 940 C 708,415
B 920 D 870,541
C 800
D 705

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Lesson 2.3
Name
Division with 2-Digit Divisors
Use the quick picture to divide.
1. 132 4 12 5 _ 11 2. 168 4 14 5 _

10 B
1 1 B
12 14

Divide. Use base-ten blocks.

3. 195 4 13 5 _ 4. 143 4 11 5 _ 5. 165 4 15 5 _

Divide. Draw a quick picture.

6. 192 4 16 5 _ 7. 169 4 13 5 _
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8. There are 182 seats in a theater. The seats are 9. There are 156 students at summer camp.
evenly divided into 13 rows. How many seats The camp has 13 cabins. An equal number
are in each row? of students sleep in each cabin. How many
students sleep in each cabin?

Chapter 2 P35
Lesson Check
1. There are 198 students in the soccer league. 2. Jason earned $187 for 17 hours of work.
There are 11 players on each soccer team. How much did Jason earn per hour?
How many soccer teams are there?
A $11
A 17
B $12
B 18
C $13
C 19
D $14
D 21

Spiral Review
3. Which number represents six million, seven 4. Which expression represents the sentence
hundred thousand, twenty? (Lesson 1.2) “Add the product of 3 and 6 to 4?” (Lesson 1.10)

A 6,000,720 A (4 1 3) 3 6
B 6,007,020 B 4 1 (3 3 6)
C 6,700,020 C 4 1 (3 1 6)
D 6,720,000 D 43316

5. To transport 228 people to an island, the 36 tickets to the school talent

6. Isabella sells
island ferry makes 6 different trips. On each show. Each ticket costs $14. How much
trip, the ferry carries the same number of money does Isabella collect for the tickets
people. How many people does the ferry she sells? (Lesson 1.7)
transport on each trip? (Lesson 2.2)
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A 36
B $384
B 37
C $404
C 38
D $504
D 39

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Lesson 2.4
Name
Partial Quotients
Divide. Use partial quotients.

1. 18qw
236 2. 36qw
540 3. 27qw
624
18w
q 236
2180 10 3 18 10
56
236 2 3 18 2
20
218 1 3 18 1 1
2 13
236 4 18 is 13 r2.

4. 478 4 16 5. 418 4 22 6. 625 4 25

7. 514 4 28 8. 322 4 14 9. 715 4 25

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10. A factory processes 1,560 ounces of 11. A pond at a hotel holds 4,290 gallons of
olive oil per hour. The oil is packaged water. The groundskeeper drains the pond at a
into 24-ounce bottles. How many bottles rate of 78 gallons of water per hour. How long
does the factory fill in one hour? will it take to drain the pond?

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Lesson Check
1. Yvette has 336 eggs to put into cartons. She 2. Ned mows a 450 square-foot garden in
puts one dozen eggs into each carton. How 15 minutes. How many square feet of the
many cartons does she fill? garden does he mow in one minute?

A 20 A 3 square feet
B 21 B 30 square feet
C 27 C 435 square feet
D 28 D 465 square feet

Spiral Review
3. Raul has 56 bouncy balls. He puts three times 4. Marcia uses 5 ounces of chicken stock to
as many balls into red gift bags as he puts into make one batch of soup. She has a total of
green gift bags. If he puts the same number of 400 ounces of chicken stock. How many
balls into each bag, how many balls does he batches of soup can Marcia make? (Lesson 2.2)
put into green bags? (Lesson 1.9)
A 50
A 42
B 80
B 19
C 200
C 14
D 2,000
D 12

5. Michelle buys 13 bags of gravel for her fish 6. Which of the following represents 4,305,012
aquarium. If each bag weighs 12 pounds, in expanded notation? (Lesson 1.2)
how many pounds of gravel did she buy?
A 400,000 1 30,000 1 5,000 1 12
(Lesson 1.7)

B 40,000 1 3,000 1 500 1 10 1 2

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C 4,000,000 1 300,000 1 5,000 1

B 143 pounds
100 1 2
C 130 pounds
D 4,000,000 1 300,000 1 5,000 1
D 26 pounds 10 1 2

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Lesson 2.5
Name
Estimate with 2-Digit Divisors

Use compatible numbers to find two estimates.

1. 18qw
1,322 2. 17qw
1,569 3. 27qw
735 4. 12qw
478

1,200 4 20
5 60
1,400 4 20
5 70
5. 336 4 12 6. 1,418 4 22 7. 16qw
2,028 8. 2,242 4 33

Use compatible numbers to estimate the quotient.

9. 82qw
5,514 10. 61qw
5,320 11. 28qw
776 12. 23qw
1,624
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13. A cubic yard of topsoil weighs 4,128 pounds. 14. An electronics store places an order for
About how many 50-pound bags of topsoil 2,665 USB flash drives. One shipping box
can you fill with one cubic yard of topsoil? holds 36 flash drives. About how many boxes
will it take to hold all the flash drives?

Chapter 2 P39
Lesson Check
1. Marcy has 567 earmuffs in stock. If she 2. Howard pays $327 for one dozen collector’s
can put 18 earmuffs on each shelf, about edition baseball cards. About how much does
how many shelves does she need for all he pay for each baseball card?
the earmuffs?
A about $20
A about 20
B about $30
B about 30
C about $45
C about 570
D about $50
D about 590

Spiral Review
3. Andrew can frame 9 pictures each day. He 4. Madeleine can type 3 pages in one hour.
has an order for 108 pictures. How many How many hours will it take her to type
days will it take him to complete the order? a 123-page report?
(Lesson 2.2) (Lesson 2.2)

A 10 days A 65 hours
B 11 days B 45 hours
C 12 days C 41 hours
D 13 days D 22 hours

5. Suppose you round 43,257,529 to 6. Grace’s catering received an order for

43,300,000. To what place value did you 118 apple pies. Grace uses 8 apples to make
round the number? (Lesson 1.2) one apple pie. How many apples does she
need to make all 118 pies? (Lesson 1.6)
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A 110
B ten thousands
B 126
C thousands
C 884
D tens
D 944

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Lesson 2.6
Name
Divide by 2-Digit Divisors
Divide. Check your answer.
1. 385 4 12 2. 837 4 36 3. 1,650 4 55 4. 5,634 4 18

32 r1
12w
q 385
236
25
224
1
5. 7,231 4 24 6. 5,309 4 43 7. 37qw
3,774 8. 54qw
1,099

9. 28qw
6,440 10. 52qw
5,256 11. 85qw
1,955 12. 46qw
5,624
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13. The factory workers make 756 machine 14. One bag holds 12 bolts. Several bags filled
parts in 36 hours. Suppose the workers with bolts are packed into a box and shipped
make the same number of machine parts to the factory. The box contains a total of
each hour. How many machine parts do they 2,760 bolts. How many bags of bolts are in
make each hour? the box?

_______ _______

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Lesson Check
1. A bakery packages 868 cupcakes into 2. Maggie orders 19 identical gift boxes. The
31 boxes. The same number of cupcakes Ship-Shape Packaging Company packs and
are put into each box. How many cupcakes ships the boxes for $1,292. How much does
are in each box? it cost to pack and ship each box?

A 28 A $58

B 37 B $64
C 38 C $68
D 47 D $78

Spiral Review
3. What is the standard form of the number 4. Kelly and 23 friends go roller skating. They
four million, two hundred sixteen thousand, pay a total of $186. About how much does it
ninety? (Lesson 1.2) cost for one person to skate? (Lesson 2.5)
A 4,260,090 A about $9
B 4,216,900 B about $15
C 4,216,090 C about $25
D 4,216,019 D about $200

5. In two days, Gretchen drinks seven 16-ounce 6. What is the value of the underlined digit in
bottles of water. She drinks the water in 4 equal 5,436,788? (Lesson 1.2)
servings. How many ounces of water does
A 4
Gretchen drink in each serving? (Lesson 1.9)
B 400
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A 112 ounces
C 40,000
B 28 ounces
D 400,000
C 12 ounces
D 4 ounces

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Lesson 2.7
Name
Interpret the Remainder

Interpret the remainder to solve.

1. Warren spent 140 hours making 16 wooden 2. Marcia has 412 bouquets of flowers for
toy trucks for a craft fair. If he spent the same centerpieces. She uses 8 flowers for
amount of time making each truck, how many each centerpiece. How many centerpieces
hours did he spend making each truck? can she make?

8
16qw
140
2128
12

8 34 hours
__

_______ _______

3. On the 5th grade class picnic, 50 students 4. One plant container holds 14 tomato
share 75 sandwiches equally. How many seedlings. If you have 1,113 seedlings, how
sandwiches does each student get? many containers do you need to hold all the
seedlings?

_______ _______
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5. Fiona bought 212 stickers to make a sticker book. 6. Jenny has 220 ounces of cleaning solution
If she places 18 stickers on each page, how that she wants to divide equally among
many pages will her sticker book have? 12 large containers. How much cleaning
solution should she put in each container?

______ ______

Chapter 2 P43
Lesson Check
1. Henry and 28 classmates go to the roller 2. Candy buys 20 ounces of mixed nuts. She
skating rink. Each van can hold 11 students. puts an equal number of ounces in each of
If all of the vans are full except one, how 3 bags. How many ounces of mixed nuts will
many students are in the van that is not full? be in each bag?

A 1 A 7 ounces
B 2 B 6 2_3 ounces
C 6 C 6 ounces
D 7 D 2 ounces

Spiral Review
3. Jayson earns $196 each week bagging 4. Desiree swims laps for 25 minutes each day.
groceries at the store. He saves half his How many minutes does she spend
earnings each week. How much money swimming laps in 14 days? (Lesson 1.7)
does Jayson save per week? (Lesson 2.2)
A 29 minutes
A $92
B 125 minutes
B $98
C 330 minutes
C $102
D 350 minutes
D $106

5. Steve is participating in a bike-a-thon for 6. Kasi is building a patio. He has 136 bricks.
charity. He will bike 144 miles per day for He wants the patio to have 8 rows, each with
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(Lesson 1.6) will Kasi put in each row? (Lesson 2.2)

A 360 miles A 17
B 620 miles B 18
C 720 miles C 128
D 820 miles D 1,088

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Lesson 2.8
Name
Adjust Quotients

Adjust the estimated digit in the quotient, if needed. Then divide.

1. 5 2. 3 3. 3 4. 2
16qw
976 24qw
689 65qw
2,210 38qw
7,035
280
17 61
16w
q 976
296
16
216
0
Divide.
5. 2,961 4 47 6. 2,072 4 86 7. 1,280 4 25 8. 31qw
1,496

9. 86qw
6,290 10. 95qw
4,000 11. 44qw
2,910 12. 82qw
4,018
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13. A copier prints 89 copies in one minute. 14. Erica is saving her money to buy a dining room
How long does it take the copier to print set that costs $580. If she saves $29 each
1,958 copies? month, how many months will she need to save
to have enough money to buy the set?

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Lesson Check
1. Gail ordered 5,675 pounds of flour for 2. Simone is in a bike-a-thon for a fundraiser.
the bakery. The flour comes in 25-pound She receives $15 in pledges for every mile
bags. How many bags of flour will the bakery she bikes. If she wants to raise $510, how
receive? many miles does she need to bike?

A 203 A 32 miles
B 227 B 34 miles

C 230 C 52 miles

D 5,650 D 495 miles

Spiral Review
3. Lina makes beaded bracelets. She uses 4. A total of 1,056 students from different schools
9 beads to make each bracelet. How many enter the county science fair. Each school
bracelets can she make with 156 beads? enters exactly 32 students. How many schools
(Lesson 2.2) participate in the science fair? (Lesson 2.6)

A 12 A 33,792
B 14 B 352
C 17 C 34
D 18 D 33

5. Which number is less than 6,789,405? 6. Christy buys 48 barrettes. She shares the
(Lesson 1.2) barrettes equally between herself and her
3 sisters. Which expression represents the
A 6,789,398
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number of barrettes each girl gets? (Lesson 1.10)

B 6,789,599 48 1 1
A ___
3
C 6,809,405
B 48 4 (3 1 1)
D 6,879,332
48
C ___
3
D 48 2 3

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PROBLEM SOLVING
Name
Lesson 2.9
Problem Solving • Division

Show your work. Solve each problem.

1. Duane has 12 times as many baseball cards as

Tony. Between them, they have 208 baseball cards.
How many baseball cards does each boy have?

Tony 16
208 baseball cards
Duane 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

208 4 13 5 16

Tony: 16 cards; Duane: 192 cards

___________

2. Hallie has 10 times as many pages to read for her

homework assignment as Janet. Altogether, they
have to read 264 pages. How many pages does
each girl have to read?

___________

3. Hank has 48 fish in his aquarium. He has 11 times

as many tetras as guppies. How many of each type
of fish does Hank have?

___________
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4. Kelly has 4 times as many songs on her music

player as Lou. Tiffany has 6 times as many songs
on her music player as Lou. Altogether, they have
682 songs on their music players. How many songs
does Kelly have?

___________

Chapter 2 P47
Lesson Check
1. Chelsea has 11 times as many art brushes 2. Jo has a gerbil and a German shepherd. The
as Monique. If they have 60 art brushes shepherd eats 14 times as much food as the
altogether, how many brushes does gerbil. Altogether, they eat 225 ounces of dry
Chelsea have? food per week. How many ounces of food
does the German shepherd eat per week?
A 5
A 225 ounces
B 11
B 210 ounces
C 49
C 15 ounces
D 55
D 14 ounces

Spiral Review
3. Jeanine is twice as old as her brother Marc. 4. Larry is shipping nails that weigh a total
If the sum of their ages is 24, how old is of 53 pounds. He divides the nails equally
Jeanine? (Lesson 1.9) among 4 shipping boxes. How many pounds
of nails does he put in each box? (Lesson 2.7)
A 16
A 4 pounds
B 12
B 13 pounds
C 8
C 13 1_4 pounds
D 3
D 14 pounds

5. Annie plants 6 rows of small flower bulbs in 6. Next year, four elementary schools will each
a garden. She plants 132 bulbs in each row. send 126 students to Bedford Middle School.
How many bulbs does Annie plant in all? What is the total number of students the
(Lesson 1.6) elementary schools will send to the middle
school? (Lesson 1.6)
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A 738
A 46
B 792
B 344
C 924
C 444
D 984
D 504

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Name

Chapter 2 Extra Practice

Lessons 2.1–2.2
Divide.

1. 8qw
346 2. 6qw
1,914 3. 8qw
1,898

4. 4qw
952 5. 3,629 4 9 6. 2,961 4 7

7. 3qw
4,276 8. 6qw
3,251 9. 1,664 4 5

Lessons 2.3–2.6
Estimate. Then divide.
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1. 19qw
1,425 2. 2,384 4 23 3. 378 4 56

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Lesson 2.7
Interpret the remainder to solve.

1. Matthew is packing 195 glasses into cartons. 2. Julia wants to make 8 bows using 18 feet of
Each carton can hold 18 glasses. How many ribbon. She wants to use an equal length of
cartons does Matthew need? ribbon for each bow with no ribbon left over.
How many feet of ribbon can she use for
each bow?

Lesson 2.8
Divide.

1. 32qw
549 2. 1,296 4 36 3. 588 4 84

4. 12qw
320 5. 53qw
6,681 6. 6,370 4 29

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Solve.

1. Greenboro gets 12 times as many inches of 2. In one month, Ansley runs 15 times as many
snow as Redville gets. Altogether, the two miles as Zack runs. Altogether, they run
towns get 65 inches of snow. How many 192 miles. How many miles does Ansley run
inches of snow does Redville get? in one month?

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