Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems

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1

Justin has shelves in his room. Each shelf holds toys. If Justin has toys, how many toys don't fit on the shelves?

Explanation

To solve this problem, we first need to find out how many of Justin's toys will fit on the shelves. If we have shelves, and toys fit on each shelf, we can multiply those two numbers together to find out the total number of toys that will fit. Let's let represent the number of toys that will fit.

Justin has toys, so to find out how many don't fit on the shelves we need to know what is left over, so we subtract. Let's let represent the number of toys left over.

2

Justin has shelves in his room. Each shelf holds toys. If Justin has toys, how many toys don't fit on the shelves?

Explanation

To solve this problem, we first need to find out how many of Justin's toys will fit on the shelves. If we have shelves, and toys fit on each shelf, we can multiply those two numbers together to find out the total number of toys that will fit. Let's let represent the number of toys that will fit.

Justin has toys, so to find out how many don't fit on the shelves we need to know what is left over, so we subtract. Let's let represent the number of toys left over.

3

students are going on a field trip. students can ride in each car. How many cars will they need for the field trip?

Explanation

When we have a set of something that we are splitting up into groups, we divide. In this case, we are dividing students up into cars. We will let represent the number of cars they will need.

Our answer is with a remainder of . This means that they will have full cars of people, but there are people left over. So they need cars in order for every student to be in a car.

4

Melissa is making holiday cookies. She made cookies and she's going to put them into small containers to give out to her friends. Each container holds cookies. How many containers can she fill completely?

Explanation

When we have a set of something that we are splitting up into groups, we divide. In this case, we are splitting up cookies into containers. We have cookies that we are dividing into containers. Each container holds cookies, so we divide by to find out how many containers we can fill. We will let represent the number of containers that we can fill.

We drop the remainder of because the question asks how many containers we can fill completely.

5

Melissa is making holiday cookies. She made cookies and she's going to put them into small containers to give out to her friends. Each container holds cookies. How many containers can she fill completely?

Explanation

When we have a set of something that we are splitting up into groups, we divide. In this case, we are splitting up cookies into containers. We have cookies that we are dividing into containers. Each container holds cookies, so we divide by to find out how many containers we can fill. We will let represent the number of containers that we can fill.

We drop the remainder of because the question asks how many containers we can fill completely.

6

Melissa is making holiday cookies. She made cookies and she's going to put them into small containers to give out to her friends. Each container holds cookies. How many containers can she fill completely?

Explanation

When we have a set of something that we are splitting up into groups, we divide. In this case, we are splitting up cookies into containers. We have cookies that we are dividing into containers. Each container holds cookies, so we divide by to find out how many containers we can fill. We will let represent the number of containers that we can fill.

We drop the remainder of because the question asks how many containers we can fill completely.

7

Melissa is making holiday cookies. She made cookies and she's going to put them into small containers to give out to her friends. Each container holds cookies. How many containers can she fill completely?

Explanation

When we have a set of something that we are splitting up into groups, we divide. In this case, we are splitting up cookies into containers. We have cookies that we are dividing into containers. Each container holds cookies, so we divide by to find out how many containers we can fill. We will let represent the number of containers that we can fill.

We drop the remainder of because the question asks how many containers we can fill completely.

8

students are going on a field trip. students can ride in each car. How many cars will they need for the field trip?

Explanation

When we have a set of something that we are splitting up into groups, we divide. In this case, we are dividing students up into cars. We will let represent the number of cars they will need.

Our answer is with a remainder of . This means that they will have full cars of people, but there is person left over. So they need cars in order for every student to be in a car.

9

Justin has shelves in his room. Each shelf holds toys. If Justin has toys, how many toys don't fit on the shelves?

Explanation

To solve this problem, we first need to find out how many of Justin's toys will fit on the shelves. If we have shelves, and toys fit on each shelf, we can multiply those two numbers together to find out the total number of toys that will fit. Let's let represent the number of toys that will fit.

Justin has toys, so to find out how many don't fit on the shelves we need to know what is left over, so we subtract. Let's let represent the number of toys left over.

10

Justin has shelves in his room. Each shelf holds toys. If Justin has toys, how many toys don't fit on the shelves?

Explanation

To solve this problem, we first need to find out how many of Justin's toys will fit on the shelves. If we have shelves, and toys fit on each shelf, we can multiply those two numbers together to find out the total number of toys that will fit. Let's let represent the number of toys that will fit.

Justin has toys, so to find out how many don't fit on the shelves we need to know what is left over, so we subtract. Let's let represent the number of toys left over.

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