Decimal Division Techniques for Families
Decimal Division Techniques for Families
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decimal A number with one or more
digits to the right of the decimal point
Divide Decimals
Divide. 44.8 4 3.2
Estimating with Decimals
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3
When estimating, it may be
Estimate. Make the divisor a Divide. helpful to round the numbers
whole number by in the problem to compatible
45 4 3 5 15 14 numbers. Compatible
multiplying the divisor
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448
and dividend by the numbers are pairs of numbers
232
__
same power of 10. that are easy to compute with
128
2128
_____ mentally.
0
3.2qw
44.8 For example, to estimate
\ \
19.68 4 4.1, use the
compatible numbers
20 and 4: 20 4 4 5 5.
So, 44.8 4 3.2 5 14.
Activity
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Dividir decimales
Divide 44.8 4 3.2
Estimar con decimales
PASO 1 PASO 2 PASO 3 Al estimar, puede resultar útil
14 redondear los números del problema
Estima. 45 4 3 5 15 Convierte el divisor Divide.
a un número entero 32qw
448 a números compatibles. Los números
Actividad
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ALGEBRA
Name
Lesson 5.1
Division Patterns with Decimals
COMMON CORE STANDARD [Link].1.2
7.83
78.3 4 10 5 __| 179 4 101 5 __ 87.5 4 101 5 __
0.783
78.3 4 100 5 __| 179 4 102 5 __ 87.5 4 102 5 __
179 4 103 5 __
4. 124 4 1 5 __ 5. 18 4 1 5 __ 6. 23 4 100 5 __
124 4 10 5 __ 18 4 10 5 __ 23 4 101 5 __
10. The local café uses 510 cups of mixed 11. The same café uses 18.5 cups of flour to
vegetables to make 1,000 quarts of beef make 100 servings of pancakes. How
barley soup. Each quart of soup contains the many cups of flour are in one serving of
same amount of vegetables. How many cups pancakes?
of vegetables are in each quart of soup?
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Lesson Check ([Link].1.2)
1. The Statue of Liberty is 305.5 feet tall, from 2. Sue’s teacher asked her to find
the foundation of its pedestal to the top of its 42.6 4 102. How should Sue move the
torch. Isla is building a model of the statue. decimal point to get the correct quotient?
The model will be one-hundredth as tall as
A 2 places to the right
the actual statue. How tall will the model be?
B 1 place to the right
A 0.3055 foot
C 1 place to the left
B 3.055 feet
D 2 places to the left
C 30.55 feet
D 30,550 feet
5. At the bank, Brent exchanges $50 in bills for 6. A commercial jetliner has 245 passenger
50 one-dollar coins. The total mass of the seats. The seats are arranged in 49 equal
coins is 405 grams. Estimate the mass of rows. How many seats are in each row?
1 one-dollar coin. (Lesson 2.5) (Lesson 2.6)
A 1 gram A 5
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B 8 grams B 49
C 50 grams C 245
D 100 grams D 1,225
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Lesson 5.2
Name
Divide Decimals by Whole Numbers COMMON CORE STANDARD [Link].2.7
9. In PE class, Carl runs a distance of 1.17 miles 10. Marianne spends $9.45 on 5 greeting cards.
in 9 minutes. At that rate, how far does Carl Each card costs the same amount. What is the
run in one minute? cost of one greeting card?
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Lesson Check ([Link].2.7)
1. Which division sentence does the model 2. A bunch of 4 bananas contains a total of
below represent? 5.92 grams of protein. Suppose each banana
contains the same amount of protein. How
much protein is in one banana?
A 1.48 grams
B 2.96 grams
C 9.92 grams
D 23.68 grams
A 1.12 4 2 5 0.56
B 2.24 4 2 5 1.12
C 2.24 4 4 5 0.56
D 3.36 4 3 5 1.12
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order from least to greatest? (Lesson 3.3) on his math homework. He spent three times
as much time on his science homework. How
1.23; 1.2; 2.31; 3.2
much time did Aiden spend on his science
A 1.23, 1.2, 2.31, 3.2 homework? (Lesson 1.6)
B 1.2, 1.23, 2.31, 3.2 A 5 minutes
C 3.2, 2.31, 1.23, 1.2 B 15 minutes
D 1.2, 1.23, 3.2, 2.31 C 30 minutes
D 45 minutes
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Lesson 5.3
Name
Estimate Quotients COMMON CORE STANDARD [Link].2.7
13. Taylor uses 645.6 gallons of water in 7 days. 14. On a road trip, Sandy drives 368.7 miles.
Suppose he uses the same amount of water Her car uses a total of 18 gallons of gas.
each day. About how much water does Taylor About how many miles per gallon does
use each day? Sandy’s car get?
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Lesson Check ([Link].2.7)
1. Terry bicycled 64.8 miles in 7 hours. Which 2. Which is the best estimate for the following
is the best estimate of the average number of quotient?
miles she bicycled each hour?
891.3 4 28
A about 0.8 mile
A about 3
B about 0.9 mile
B about 4
C about 8 miles
C about 30
D about 9 miles
D about 40
5. Tara has $2,000 in her savings account. 6. Which of the following statements is true?
David has one-tenth as much as Tara in his (Lesson 3.3)
savings account. How much does David have
A 7.63 . 7.629
in his savings account? (Lesson 4.1)
B 5.134 . 5.14
A $2
C 8.23 , 8.230
B $20
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D 4.079 5 4.790
C $200
D $20,000
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Lesson 5.4
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Division of Decimals by Whole Numbers COMMON CORE STANDARDS [Link].1.2,
[Link].2.7
Divide.
1.32
1. 7qw
9.24 2. 6qw
5.04 3. 23qw
85.1
_
27
22
_
221
14
_
214
0
4. 36qw
86.4 5. 6qw
$6.48 6. 8qw
59.2
7. 5qw
2.35 8. 41qw
278.8 9. 19qw
$70.49
10. 4qw
$9.48 11. 18qw
82.8 12. 37qw
32.93
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13. On Saturday, 12 friends go ice skating. 14. A team of 4 people participates in a 400-yard
Altogether, they pay $83.40 for admission. relay race. Each team member runs the same
They share the cost equally. How much distance. The team completes the race in a
does each person pay? total of 53.2 seconds. What is the average
running time for each person?
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1. Theresa pays $9.56 for 4 pounds of 2. Robert wrote the division problem below.
tomatoes. What is the cost of 1 pound of What is the quotient?
tomatoes?
13qw
83.2
A $0.24
A 6.4
B $2.39
B 6.6
C $23.90 C 64
D $38.24 D 66
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Decimal Division COMMON CORE STANDARD [Link].2.7
9. Keisha buys 2.4 kilograms of rice. She 10. Leighton is making cloth headbands. She has
separates the rice into packages that 4.2 yards of cloth. She uses 0.2 yard of cloth
contain 0.4 kilogram of rice each. How
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Lesson Check ([Link].2.7)
1. What number sentence does the model 2. Morris has 1.25 pounds of strawberries.
represent? He uses 0.25 pound of strawberries to
make one serving. How many servings can
Morris make?
A 0.25
B 0.5
C 1.25
A 1.5 4 0.3 5 5
D 5
B 1.5 4 0.5 5 3
C 0.9 4 0.3 5 3
D 2.5 4 0.5 5 5
5. Volunteers at an animal shelter divided 6. At the movies, Aaron buys popcorn for $5.25
132 pounds of dry dog food equally into and a bottle of water for $2.50. He pays with
16 bags. How many pounds of dog food did a $10 bill. How much change should Aaron
they put in each bag? (Lesson 2.7) receive? (Lesson 3.11)
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A 8 pounds A $2.25
1 pounds
B 8__ B $2.50
4
1 pounds C $5.25
C 8__
2
D $7.75
D 9 pounds
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Lesson 5.6
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Divide Decimals COMMON CORE STANDARDS [Link].1.2,
[Link].2.7
Divide.
1. 0.4qw
8.4 21 2. 0.2qw
0.4 3. 0.07qw
1.68
Multiply both 4qw
84
0.4 and 8.4 by
10 to make the
28
_
divisor a whole 04
number. Then _24
divide.
0
4. 0.37qw
5.18 5. 0.4qw
10.4 6. 6.3 4 0.7
10. At the market, grapes cost $0.85 per pound. 11. Damon kayaks on a river near his home. He
Clarissa buys grapes and pays a total of $2.55. plans to kayak a total of 6.4 miles. Damon
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How many pounds of grapes does she buy? kayaks at an average speed of 1.6 miles per
hour. How many hours will it take Damon to
kayak the 6.4 miles?
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1. Lee walked a total of 4.48 miles. If he walks 2. Janelle has 3.6 yards of wire, which she
1.4 miles each hour. How long did Lee walk? wants to use to make bracelets. She needs
0.3 yard for each bracelet. Altogether, how
A 3.08 hours
many bracelets can Janelle make?
B 3.2 hours
A 1.08
C 6.272 hours
B 3.3
D 32 hours
C 3.9
D 12
5. Continue the pattern below. What is the 6. Which number will make the following
2
quotient 75.8 4 10 ? (Lesson 5.1) statement true? (Lesson 3.3)
75.8 4 100 5 75.8 58.827 , 58.h1
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1
75.8 4 10 5 _ A 2
75.8 4 102 5 _ B 3
A 0.758 C 758 C 8
B 7.58 D 7,580 D 9
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Lesson 5.7
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Write Zeros in the Dividend COMMON CORE STANDARD [Link].2.7
Divide.
3.95
1. 6qw
23.70 2. 25qw
405 3. 0.6qw
12.9 4. 0.8qw
30
_
218
57
_ 254
30
_
230
0
5. 4qw
36.2 6. 35qw
97.3 7. 7.8 4 15 8. 49 4 14
13. Mark has a board that is 12 feet long. He 14. Josh pays $7.59 for 2.2 pounds of ground
cuts the board into 8 pieces that are the turkey. What is the price per pound of the
same length. How long is each piece? ground turkey?
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1. Tina divides 21.4 ounces of trail mix equally 2. A slug crawls 5.62 meters in 0.4 hours. What
into 5 bags. How many ounces of trail mix is the slug’s speed in meters per hour?
are in each bag?
A 0.1405 meters per hour
A 0.428 ounce B 1.405 meters per hour
B 4.28 ounces C 14.05 meters per hour
C 42.8 ounces D 140.5 meters per hour
D 428 ounces
5. A concert sold out for 12 performances. 6. Jared has two dogs, Spot and Rover. Spot
Altogether, 8,208 tickets were sold. How weighs 75.25 pounds. Rover weighs
many tickets were sold for each 48.8 pounds more than Spot. How much
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PROBLEM SOLVING
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Lesson 5.8
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1. Lily spent $30.00 on a T-shirt, a sandwich, and (2 3 cost of each book) 1 $8.95 1
2 books. The T-shirt cost $8.95, and the sandwich $7.25 5 $30.00
cost $7.25. The books each cost the same amount. $30.00 2 $8.95 2 $7.25 5 ( 2 3 cost of
How much did each book cost? each book)
(2 3 cost of each book) 5 $13.80
$13.80 4 2 5 $6.90
____ $6.90
2. Meryl spends a total of $68.82 for 2 pairs of
sneakers with the same cost. The sales tax is
$5.32. Meryl also uses a coupon for $3.00 off
her purchase. How much does each pair of
sneakers cost?
____
____
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1. Joe spends $8 on lunch and $6.50 on dry 2. Tina uses a $50 gift certificate to buy a
cleaning. He also buys 2 shirts that each cost pair of pajamas for $17.97, a necklace for
the same amount. Joe spends a total of $52. $25.49, and 3 pairs of socks that each cost
What is the cost of each shirt? the same amount. Tina has to pay $0.33
because the gift certificate does not cover
A $18.25
the total cost of all the items. How much
B $18.75 does each pair of socks cost?
C $33.75 A $0.11
D $37.50 B $2.07
C $2.18
D $2.29
5. Sarah, Juan, and Larry are on the track team. 6. On a fishing trip, Lucy and Ed caught one fish
Last week, Sarah ran 8.25 miles, Juan ran each. Ed’s fish weighed 6.45 pounds. Lucy’s
11.8 miles, and Larry ran 9.3 miles. How fish weighed 1.6 times as much. How much
many miles did they run altogether? (Lesson 3.8) did Lucy’s fish weigh? (Lesson 4.7) © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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274 4 10 5 __ 83 4 10 5 __ 12 4 101 5 __
1. 1.2 4 4 5 __ 2. 3.75 4 3 5 __
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Divide.
3. 2.4 4 6 5 __ 4. 4.9 4 7 5 __ 5. 4.92 4 4 5 __
6. 7qw
9.24 7. 4qw
$7.64 8. 52qw
140.4
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Lesson 5.3
Estimate the quotient.
1. 28.3 4 9 2. 74.3 4 8 3. 198.4 4 21
Lessons 5.5–5.7
Use the model to complete the number sentence.
Divide.
3. 3.2 4 0.8 4. 8.1 4 0.9 5. 1.68 4 0.56
6. 0.7qw
16.1 7. 5.6 4 0.7 8. 7.56 4 0.21
9. 8qw
92 10. 11 4 2.5 11. 76 4 8
Lesson 5.8
1. Quinn spent $16.49 for 3 magazines and 2. Jairo spent $40.18 on 3 music CDs. Each
4 sheets of stickers. The magazines cost $3.99 CD cost the same amount. The sales tax was
each and the sales tax was $1.02. Quinn also $2.33. Jairo also used a coupon for $1.00 off
used a coupon for $1.50 off her purchase. If his purchase. How much did each CD cost?
each sheet of stickers had the same cost, how
much did each sheet of stickers cost?
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