IXL | Multi-step word problems involving remainders

The neighborhood kids are planning a snowball fight with 2 teams. The kids made 21 snowballs before lunch and 14 after lunch. They decide to take all the snowballs and share them evenly.

Complete the sentence.

Each team will get snowballs, and there will be left over.

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question

Ethan has been saving $2 a week for 14 weeks. He wants to spend his savings on comic books. They cost $3 each, and Ethan wants to buy as many as he can.

Complete the sentence.

Ethan can buy comic books, and he will have

left.

solution

Each comic book costs $3. Dividing the amount of money Ethan has by 3 will tell you the number of comic books he can buy and the amount of money he will have left.

Step 1: Find how much money Ethan has.

Multiply $2 a week by 14 weeks.

Ethan has $28.

Step 2: Find the number of comic books Ethan can buy and the amount of money he will have left.

Divide how much money Ethan has by how much money each comic book costs.

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Ethan can buy 9 comic books, and he will have $1 left.

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