You will use them when figuring out tips at a restaurant, figuring out how much more than one of an item will cost, finding unit price for comparison in stores that do not provide the information, and for many other practical things.
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Preparing enough food for the guests at a dinner party - 16 people x 1 potato each = 16 potatoes. 16 people x 8 ounces of steak each = 128 ounces of steak = 8 pounds of steak.
If my chocolate chip cookie recipe makes 48 cookies and requires 3 cups of sugar, how many cups of sugar are required for 16 cookies? There are lots of applications for division.
There are many event, in real life, which have binary outcomes (A or B0 which are equally likely. In studying such situations the coin probabilities are obvious analogies.