Working out a rate for one

Difficulty Standard · Set 7myjxf

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12 identical boxes hold 72 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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8 identical boxes hold 88 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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6 identical boxes hold 24 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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4 identical boxes hold 24 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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5 identical boxes hold 55 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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5 identical boxes hold 45 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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6 identical boxes hold 36 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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10 identical boxes hold 120 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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8 identical boxes hold 24 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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9 identical boxes hold 72 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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3 identical boxes hold 12 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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6 identical boxes hold 30 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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5 identical boxes hold 10 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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9 identical boxes hold 45 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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4 identical boxes hold 20 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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12 identical boxes hold 132 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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11 identical boxes hold 77 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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7 identical boxes hold 35 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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15 identical boxes hold 75 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?
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14 identical boxes hold 84 pencils altogether. How many are in one box?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 3 to 180.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the numbers were multiplied; one box holds the total shared out between the boxes.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 115 different ones, 48% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 6 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.