Everyday Use of Short Division 1. Frank has 72 cents. How many 4-cent apples can he buy? How many 2-cent apples can he buy? 2. Mary's father is a grocer. He had 815 pounds of sugar. He put all this sugar in bags. If each bag held 5 pounds of sugar, how many bags did he have? 3. Mother bought 128 pounds of sugar. How many days will it last if we use 4 pounds a day? If we use 2 pounds a day? 4. Father planted 44 apple trees in 2 equal rows. How many trees are in each row? 5. If 624 trees are to be set out in 4 equal rows, how many trees will be in each row? 6. Dick had 112 eggs. How many eggs did he sell? He sold one-fourth of them. 7. Marian saves 5 cents a day. will it take her to save 75 cents? How many days oranges together. If there are 232 8. Two families buy a box of They divide these oranges equally. oranges in all, how many oranges does each family get? 9. There are 464 children in a parade. They march 4 in a line. How many lines are there? 10. There are 724 stamps in father's stamp album. He gave Herbert one-fourth of them. How many stamps did Herbert get? 11. How many badges, each 4 inches long, can I cut from a piece of ribbon 92 inches long? 1. Which pieces of money are made of silver? Of what are the other pieces of money made? 2. How many nickels are equal in value to a quarter? 3. How many nickels equal a half-dollar? 4. How many nickels equal a dollar? 5. How many dimes equal a half-dollar? AR 8. How many quarters equal a dollar? 9. Dan has 3 cents, 2 nickels, 2 dimes, and 1 quarter. How much money has he? 10. John puts 4 cents into his bank each day for 25 days. How much money in all did he put into the bank? How many quarters can he get with this money? 17. 2)134 18. 5)235 19. 4)148 20. 216÷2 21. 315÷5 Find the answers: 22. of 176 23. of 520 24. 364 25. of 70 SAVING MONEY 1. Robert was saving money to buy a baseball bat for 60¢. After he had saved 34¢ how much more did he need to buy the bat? 2. Father gave Ned a bank for Christmas, and put a quarter in it. Ned put in 2 dimes, 2 nickels, and 5 pennies. How much did Ned have in his bank in all? 3. Marian counted the money in her bank. She had 3 dimes, 5 nickels, and 15 pennies. How much did she have in all? If her father gave her 2 more dimes for her bank, how much did she have then? 4. Mary wanted to buy a handbag for 45 cents. If she saved 5 cents every week, how many weeks would it take her to save enough money to buy the handbag? 5. Father said he would put into Sarah's bank twice as much as she saved. In one month she saved and How much did Father add put into the bank 32 cents. to this? How much in all did Sarah put into the bank this month? 6. James had 29 cents in his bank. One week he put into it 28¢ more, the next week 22¢, and the third 10¢. How much was in his bank at the end of the third week? 7. Frank started a savings account in his school bank with 15¢. At the end of a month his bankbook showed that he had added to this 164, 104, 23¢, 23¢, and 10¢. How much did he have in the bank at the end of the month? |