Word problems with something left over

Difficulty Starter · Set lf8vr1

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1
15 chairs are put out in rows of 4. How many full rows are there?
2
11 chairs are put out in rows of 3. How many full rows are there?
3
33 chairs are put out in rows of 9. How many full rows are there?
4
38 chairs are put out in rows of 10. How many full rows are there?
5
40 chairs are put out in rows of 12. How many full rows are there?
6
22 chairs are put out in rows of 7. How many full rows are there?
7
23 chairs are put out in rows of 6. How many full rows are there?
8
19 chairs are put out in rows of 5. How many full rows are there?
9
34 chairs are put out in rows of 11. How many full rows are there?
10
14 chairs are put out in rows of 3. How many full rows are there?
11
33 chairs are put out in rows of 10. How many full rows are there?
12
55 chairs are put out in rows of 12. How many full rows are there?
13
19 chairs are put out in rows of 4. How many full rows are there?
14
59 chairs are put out in rows of 12. How many full rows are there?
15
47 chairs are put out in rows of 11. How many full rows are there?
16
14 chairs are put out in rows of 4. How many full rows are there?
17
30 chairs are put out in rows of 7. How many full rows are there?
18
25 chairs are put out in rows of 6. How many full rows are there?
19
30 chairs are put out in rows of 9. How many full rows are there?
20
38 chairs are put out in rows of 10. How many full rows are there?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 3 to 59.
Every problem in it will leave something over that the answer does not count.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the 1 left over do not make a full row, so they are not counted.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 102 different ones, 43% — 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 4 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.