A quick problem to test your middle schoolers' knowledge of dividing with decimals. Also a good practice of unit rates, they must compute the cost of one gallon of gas when given the total amount for a fill up. Can be used as a preface to ratios and proportions.

Additional Tags

multi-digit decimal, multi-digit operations, math

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Pros

• Good warm-up problem
• Answer key provided

Cons

• Need prior knowledge of dividing with decimals
• No examples

Common Core

6.NS.B.3 MP2 MP4