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HOMEWORK

Solving Division Problems

Solve the story problems below. Write an equation for each problem and show how you solved it so that someone else reading your solution will understand your thinking.

• 1 Marco wants to sell his marble collection at a yard sale. He has 112 marbles. He wants to put 8 marbles in each bag. How many bags of marbles will he have?

  Equation:

  Solution:

• 2 Marco baked 96 cookies to sell at the yard sale. He wants to fill 6 cookie tins with the same number of cookies in each tin. How many cookies should he put in each tin?

  Equation:

  Solution:

NOTE

Students review the meaning of division problems and practice solving them.

MWI Division Situations

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