McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Grade 3, Chapter 10

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Division with a Purpose

Golden Harvest Food Bank
http://www.goldenharvest.org/services/masterstable.asp

Sharpen your pencils and figure out the many ways this food bank helps in its community!

• Read the information. Answer questions 1–2
• In the left menu, click Homebound.
• Answer questions 3–5.
• In the left menu, click Brown Bag.
• Answer questions 6–8.

Answer the questions below using information from the Web site.

1. On one day, the Master’s Table Soup Kitchen serves 200 meals. If 8 volunteers serve the meals, and each volunteer serves an equal number of meals, how many meals does each volunteer serve?
   
                                                                         
   
   
   
2. Two hundred people come to the soup kitchen for lunch. If each table seats 5 people, how many tables are needed?
   
                                                                         
   
   
   
3. Golden Harvest can provide a needy elderly homebound citizen with nutritious food for only $6 per month. How many months will a donation of $84 last?
   
                                                                         
   
   
   
4. The Homebound program delivers 420 boxes of food each month. If they deliver an equal number of boxes each week, how many boxes do they deliver during 1 week of a 4-week month?
   
                                                                         
   
   
   
5. Every Saturday 4 volunteers meet to pack the boxes of food. Last Saturday, the volunteers packed a total of 232 boxes. Each volunteer packed an equal number of boxes. How many boxes did each volunteer pack?
   
                                                                         
   
   
   
6. Last year, the food bank delivered food to 2,808 senior households through the Brown Bag program. If 8 volunteers delivered the food, and each volunteer delivered food to an equal number of households, how many households did each volunteer deliver to?
   
                                                                         
   
   
   
7. Jillian donated $75.00 to the Brown Bag program. She saved for 5 days to earn this money, and saved an equal amount of money each day. How much money did she save each day?
   
                                                                         
   
   
   
8. The Community Services Club at your school wants to donate $60.00 to the Brown Bag program. The Club has 8 members. Each member wants to donate an equal amount of money. How much money will each member donate?
   
                                                                         
   
   
   

Math at Home

Today I explored a Web site about a food bank that distributes food in South Carolina and Georgia. I learned that the food bank delivers                                boxes of food every month to homebound people through its Homebound program.

You can find out more about this topic by asking your teacher or parents to show you other Web sites.