Word Problems about Equal Groups Lesson 11 Word Problems about Equal Groups

Example 1 Forty-two students can ride on each bus. If there are 12 buses, how many students can ride to the game? 42 * 12 504 Students

Example 2 Forty-two students can ride on each bus. There are 1264 students who want to go to the game. How many buses are needed to take all of the students to the game? 1264 ÷ 42 = 30 R 4 31 Buses

Example 3 Five hundred sixty students will be as evenly divided as possible between 34 buses. How many students will ride on each bus? N × 34 = 560 N = 560/34 N = 16 Buses with 17 Kids 18 Buses with 16 Kids

Practice 1 Forty kids stood patiently in each line. There were 35 lines of kids. How many kids were standing patiently in all the lines? 1400 Kids

Practice 2 Forty kids could crawl into one space. If there were 1600 kids, how many spaces would it take to hold them all? 40 spaces

Practice 3 There were 148 kids that had to be crowded as evenly as possible into 8 spaces. How many kids were there in each space? Four spaces with 18 kids, Four spaces with 19 kids

Homework – Problem Set