Lesson 5: Using Divisibility rules for 3, 6 or 9 to find common factors

Explore and Discover!

Nena’s garden has 414 bougainvillea plants. She wants to arrange them in either rows
of 3, 6 or 9. Which are the possible arrangements of the plants?

To solve the problem, you need to know if 3 6 or 9 are factors of 414 or if 414 is divisible
by 3, 6 or 9.

Recall the rules:

 Divisible by 3: sum of digits of the number is divisible by 3

414= 4+1+4=9, 9 is divisible by 3,therefore 414 is divisible by 3

 Divisible by 6: number is divisible by both 2 and 3

414 is divisible by 2 and 3, therefore 414 is divisible by 6

 Divisible by 9: sum of the digits of the number is divisible by 9

414= 4+1+4=9, 9 is divisible by 9, therefore 414 is divisible by 9

Get Moving!

A. Put a check under each column to identify whether each number is divisible by 3, 6 or 9.

3 6 9
528
1242
3456
624
852
2547
324
120

B. Write the letter of the correct answer on your notebook.

1. Which of the following is divisible by 3?

a.11 b.36 c.23
2. Which of the following is divisible by 9?
a. 108 b.100 c.124
3. Which of the following is divisible by 6?
a. 71 b.134 c.234
4. 3 is a factor of
a.272 b.153 c.92
5. 6 is a factor of
a.84 b.75 c.53
 Keep Moving!

A . Tell whether each number is divisible by 6 or not.

1.906
2.1322
3.4714
4.5166
5.84510
B. Tell whether each number is divisible by 9 or not.
1.89019
2.4617
3.48753
4.1404
5.75834

Apply Your Skills!

Answer the following questions and write the answers on your notebook.

1. Are all numbers divisible by 9 also divisible by 3?

2. How many numbers between 50 to 100 are divisible by 3?

3. Marjorie wants to arrange her 186 books in three rows. Would it be possible?