Multi-Step Word Problems

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1 Multi-Step Word Problems

2 Emma bought 5 hair bows for $3.00 each. She paid $20.00 for the hair bows. How much change should she receive? The P.E. teacher has two boxes of six basketballs and five boxes of nine tennis balls. How many basketballs and tennis balls does she have in all? 1 Ethan and Liam ran track. Ethan ran three times as long as Liam. Liam ran for 12 miles. How many more miles did Ethan run than Liam? 3 2 Olivia has 12 aps on her Ipad. Sophia has four times as many aps on her Ipad. How many aps do they have in all? 4

3 Noah gave away candy to his friends. He had 45 pieces of candy and ate nine pieces of the candy. He gave equal amounts of candy to six friends. How much candy did they get? Mason has $20. He bought six packs of baseball cards for $3 each. How much money does he have left? 5 Ava had a dog walking business. She earned three times as much on Saturday as she did on Friday. She made $9 on Friday. How much more did she earn on Saturday than Friday? 7 6 Jacob lives on a farm. He has eight horses and twice as many cows as horses. How many cows and horses does he have in all? 8

4 There were three flower pots on the front porch. Each flower pot had 6 flowers in it, and each flower had eight petals. How many petals were there in all? At the farm there were three cows, two horses, and five chickens. How many legs were there in all? Jack is eight years old and his father is four times older than Jack. How much older is Jack s father than Jack? Isabella picked eight bunches of grapes. Each bunch had 11 grapes. She ate 18 grapes as a snack and saved the rest for later. How many grapes did she save?

5 Mia has six boxes of markers. Each box contains 12 markers. She drew a picture and discovered that 9 of her markers had dried out. How many markers did she have left? Aiden bought three packs of gum with 6 sticks of gum in each pack. Ella bought 5 packs of gum with eight sticks of gum in each pack. How much more gum did Ella buy than Aiden? The bookstore had eight rows of children s books. There were 12 books on each row. Later that day, the store sold 19 books. How many books were left? Emily has a rock collection. She has seven boxes of rocks with 14 rocks in each box. She has 29 igneous rocks. How many of the rocks were NOT igneous rocks?

6 There are 65 coins in a box. Jackson spent 49 of the coins. He placed the rest of his coins into equal groups of four. How many coins were in each group? Lily baked three dozen cupcakes. She placed the cupcakes into boxes with nine cupcakes in each box. How many boxes did she use? Logan wanted to score 100 points during his basketball season. He scored eight points a game in each of his first nine games. How many more points does he need to score to reach his goal? Mrs. Smith bought four packs of stickers with 20 stickers in each pack. Mrs. Jones bought five packs with 10 stickers in each pack. How many stickers did they buy in all? 19 20

7 Lucas bought school supplies with $50. He bought paper for $3, pencils for $5, and three folders for $5 each. How much change did he receive? 21 Chloe had 83 beads. She gave away 27 of the beads. She placed the extra beads equally into seven bags. How many beads were in each bag? 23 The school s third graders went on a field trip. There were 20 students in each of the four third grade classes. The students were split into two equal groups for the bus ride. How many students were on each bus? 22 Ben baked 48 cookies. He placed the cookies into bags with 4 cookies in a bag and sold the bags for $2 each at a bake sale. How much money did he earn? 24

8 Madison has 7 bracelets. Her sister Abigail has three times as many bracelets as Madison. How many bracelets do they have in all? 25 There were 3 vases of flowers. In each vase there were 6 roses with 10 petals on each rose and 5 lilies with 8 petals on each lily. How many petals were there altogether? 27 William has fruit trees in his back yard. He has 2 apple trees with 20 apples on each tree. He has 3 pear trees with 30 pears on each tree. If he gave away half of his fruit, how much would he have left? 26 Ryan had 6 dogs and each dog had 4 puppies. Each of the puppies had 3 stripes. How many total stripes did the puppies have? 28

9 Mrs. Edwards has 6 square tables with 4 students at each table. She also has 3 round tables with 3 students at each table. How many students does Mrs. Edwards have? Charlotte planted a garden with 4 rows. There were 6 squash in each row, 3 carrots in each row, and 7 cucumbers in each row. How many vegetables were there in all? 29 Riley has 15 tickets for rides at the fair. She wants to ride each of the 10 rides 3 times. She needs 4 tickets for each ride. How many more tickets does Riley need? James received 4 boxes of Legos for his birthday. There were 50 Lego pieces in each box. He wants to build 5 towers using an equal amount of Legos in each tower. How many Lego pieces will be in each tower? 32

10 Multi-Step Word Problems-Recording Sheet Card # Answer Card # Answer Card # Answer

11 Multi-Step Word Problems-Answer Key 1 $ grapes 23 8 beads 2 57 total balls markers 24 $ more miles sticks of gum bracelets 4 60 aps in all books pieces of fruit 5 $ rocks petals 6 6 pieces of candy 17 4 coins stripes 7 $ boxes vegetables 8 24 cows and horses more points students petals stickers tickets legs 21 $ Lego pieces years students

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