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Division Practice

Solve each challenge. Show your working where space is provided. For remainders, explain what they mean in the situation.

Division in context

Use division to solve real-world problems. Check that your answers make sense.

1.A community festival has 1,275 snack bars to place equally into boxes of 24. How many full boxes can be filled, and how many snack bars will be left over?

2.A sports club is taking 286 players to a tournament. Each minibus holds 18 players. What is the minimum number of minibuses the club must book? Explain why you rounded your answer as you did.

3.Calculate 7,392 ÷ 16. Show a method that makes your answer easy to check.

4.A student says 4,589 ÷ 35 = 130 remainder 39. Is this a valid division answer? If not, rewrite it with a remainder smaller than the divisor.

5.Without calculating exactly first, choose the best estimate for 9,840 ÷ 41. Then calculate the exact answer and say whether your estimate was reasonable.

About 24
About 240
About 2,400
About 24,000

Decimals, fractions and checking

Use place value and inverse operations to solve these challenges.

6.A walking group plans a 13.5 km route over 6 equal stages. How long is each stage?

7.Work out 58.32 ÷ 1.2. Show how you can change the calculation to use a whole-number divisor.

8.Four friends share 7/8 of a pizza equally. What fraction of a whole pizza does each friend receive?

9.Complete the equation: □ ÷ 28 = 46. Use multiplication to explain how you found the missing number.

10.Isla works out 6,048 ÷ 24 and gets 252. Check her answer by multiplication. Is she correct?

11.Write a division calculation with a two-digit divisor that has a quotient of 125 and a remainder of 7. Then write the dividend and check your calculation.