Math Drills
Equal Sharing and Distribution Word Problems
B-2Word Problems (Second Half)
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- Equal Sharing and Distribution Word Problems
Word problems have a scene read and everything up to the answer gathered into one expression. Dividing in Two Steps, Dividing All at Once and Adding or Removing Before Sharing Equally differ in what is prepared before the dividing, while Dividing Then Using and Multiplying Then Dividing run a division and a multiplication together. Difference of Quotients subtracts two quotients, and Combining Divisions and What Is Left and the Total After Sharing gather into one as well.
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Where something is added or taken away before the dividing, the expression gets built without parentheses and the division ends up happening first. Dividing All at Once and Adding or Removing Before Sharing Equally need the adding or taking away wrapped in parentheses. Before the answer figure, whether parentheses stand in the expression box is what to look at.
The unit opens from assembling an expression with division at its center. That use of parentheses is carried straight on into Price Word Problems, where multiplying a unit price by a count becomes the center of the expression.
- Multiplying Then Dividing2 questions
- Difference of Quotients1 question
- Combining Divisions1 question
- What Is Left and the Total After Sharing1 question
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These are the problems in “Various Word Problems”, shown with their answers.
(1)As a festival prize, Grace received 7 bags of candies, with 6 put in 1 bag each. If these are shared equally among 3 people, how many will 1 person's share be? Answer □
Answer: 14candies
(2)At a peach orchard harvest, Chloe took home 8 boxes of peaches, with 6 put in 1 box each. If these are shared equally among 3 people, how many will 1 person's share be? Answer □
Answer: 16peaches
(3)Lamps: Caleb bought 6 and paid 540 dollars. Helena bought 4 and paid 280 dollars. Per 1 lamp, how many dollars more expensive is Caleb's than Helena's? Answer □
Answer: 20dollars
(4)At a candy store, Henry found cookies being sold with 15 in 1 box. After buying 4 boxes and splitting them equally among 3 friends and himself, find how many 1 person will get. Answer □
Answer: 15cookies
(5)Preparing a new-term supply set, Riley gives 2 rulers each to 1 person for 14 people, and then receives 22 more. Find how many rulers there are in all. Answer □
Answer: 50rulers
