Welcome to another Learner's Grid resource. Please enjoy the quiz below. This quiz relate to our class work on deciding whether to round up or down after division, and has the answers available.
Solve these "real life" problems using a calculator:
(1) We have 480 new books for the library. Each shelf holds 54 books. How many shelves do we need?
(2) We have 4000 millilitres of jam on the stove. We need to put the jam into jars for storage. Each jar will hold 350ml of jam. How many jars will we need to hold all the jam?
(3) We have a piece of timber which is 890cm long. We want to cut it into shorter pieces exactly 18cm long. How many 18cm pieces can we get from the 890cm long piece of timber?
(4) I have a piece of string which is 300cm long. I want to cut it up into shorter pieces exactly 11cm long. How many pieces exactly 11cm in length will I get?
(5) I have $410 which I want to split evenly between 4 people. How much will each person get?