How to divide - SSAT Elementary Level Quantitative

We want to know how many groups of 4 there are in 16?

Draw groups of 4 *'s until you get to 16 *'s:

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or

Add 4's until you get to 16:

(there are four 4's in 16)

Divide 16 by 4. The quotient is 4.

To visualize, divide 16 objects into equal groups of 4, then count how many groups there are:

oooo oooo oooo oooo = 4 groups in all.

72 marbles are being divided among the four children, so divide 72 by 4:

This is a two-step question. First, divide 10 chores by 2 (because he will do 2 per day) to find out how many days he will do chores.

He will have 5 days of chores.

Since there are 7 days in a week, subtract the number of chore days from the number of days in a week.

He will have 2 non-chore days.

When you divide 4 into 15, it does not go in evenly.

4 goes into 15 three full times. The remainder is the difference between 15 and 12.

Therefore the remainder is 3, so the correct answer is 3 R3.

The correct answer is . If you divide objects into equal groups, each group will have things.

You divide the total numbers of chocolates by the number of students, so

You have to add all three test scores together and then divide by the number of tests.

This would give you an average test score of .

7 does not divide evenly into 18, so there will be a remainder. 7 goes into 18 two times.

To find the remainder, we subtract 14 from 18.

The answer is therefore 2 R4.

You can also draw a picture to help visualize the problem:

ooooooo ooooooo oooo

This shows 2 groups of 7 (for a total of 14), with 4 left over (the remainder).

To find the quotient, we will need to divide the first number by the second.

This simplifies to , since goes into both the ones place and the tens place only once with no remainder.

When you divide 5 into 24, it does not go in evenly.

5 goes into 24 four times, with a remainder of 4.

You can also draw a picture:

ooooo ooooo ooooo ooooo oooo

This shows 4 groups of 5 (equals 20) with 4 left over (remainder).

Therefore, the correct answer is 4 R4.

When you divide 8 into 50, it does not go in evenly.

8 goes into 50, 6 times with a remainder of 2.

You can also draw a picture:

oooooooo oooooooo oooooooo oooooooo oooooooo oooooooo oo

This shows 6 groups of 8 (equals 48) with 2 left over (remainder).

Therefore, the correct answer is 6 R2.

Since Shawn, Emma, and Blake agree to split the cost of the present equally, each friend will pay the same amount of money. In this case, we need to divide by , giving us a total of being spent by Shawn.

This question is asking for the quotient when you divide 3 into 12. Another way to think about this is how many times does 3 go into 12.

3, 6, 9, 12 so it goes in four times.

The correct answer is 4. The question is asking how many times 9 goes into 36. Think 9, 18, 27, and then 36, so 4 times.

Because we are breaking the total number of dogs into smaller, equal groups, we need to divide.