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title: "Four Carrots per Pot"
description: "Math story: Mama and Papa are cooking lots of soup. Each pot needs 4 carrots. The chick picks 16 carrots. How many pots of soup can they make?"
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# Four Carrots per Pot

Math story 38 · Division · Grades 2–3 · 0:33

## Read the story

Mama and Papa are cooking lots of soup.

Each pot needs 4 carrots.

The chick picks 16 carrots.

**How many pots of soup can they make?**

## Answer and working

They can make 4 pots! Because 16 divided by 4 is 4.

`16 ÷ 4 = 4`