Decimal Calculations 9
Division Problems

As with multiplication, division is often needed in practical problems.

Worked Examples

1

45 sweets are divided equally between 9 children. How many do they each get?

Show me Each child gets 45 ÷ 9 = 5 sweets.

Exercises

A mini chocolate bar costs 8p. How many bars can be bought with 72p?

bars

A multistorey car park has 4 levels, each taking the same number of cars. When full it holds 124 cars.

How many cars can park at each level?

cars

A train can carry 384 passengers. It has 8 carriages, each with the same seating capacity.

How many people can each carriage hold?

passengers

Rafiq borrows £50 from his Dad. He pays it back in 10 equal weekly instalments.

How much does he pay back each week?

£

£375.69 is raised at a jumble sale. This is divided equally between 3 charities.

How much does each of the charities get?

£

Charlotte has 24 sweets. She shares them out equally between herself and her 3 friends.

How many sweets do they get each?

sweets

Three children are paid £15 for working in a garden. They share the money equally between them.

How much do they get each?

£

Karen buys 6 tickets, each costing the same, for the theatre. She pays a total of £54 for the tickets.

How much does each ticket cost?

£

A rope is 22.48 m long. It is cut into 4 parts of equal length.

How long is each part?

m

A baker mixes 1944 grams of dough. It is used to make 12 small loaves of equal weight.

How much dough is used in each loaf?

g

Rachel, Ben, Emma and Hannah are given £5.50 to share equally between them. Can they share it equally?

40 children want to go on a school trip to Wimbledon. They will be taken in minibuses that each hold 13 passengers.

How many minibuses will be needed for the trip?

minibuses

How many chocolate bars costing 23p each can I buy with £2?

bars

A teacher has 240 grams of clay. She cuts off lumps of mass 35 grams each.

(a)

How many lumps can she make?

lumps
(b)

How much clay is left over?

g

A text book costs £7.50. A teacher has £149 to spend on books.

How many copies of this text book can she buy?

copies