Multi step word problems

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?
Step 1: Find out how many beads she has after she gave away 27 beads.
Step 2: Find out how many beads were in each of 7 bags.

• 7 beads
• 8 beads
• 3 beads
• 144 beads

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

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?
Step 1: How many bags of cookies did Ben have?
Step 2: If he sold each bag for $2 how much money did he earn?

• $12
• $2
• $4
• $24

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Madison has 7 bracelets. Her sister Abigail has three times as many bracelets as Madison. How many bracelets do they have in all?
Step 1: Find out how many bracelets Abigail has.
Step 2: Find out how many bracelets they have in all.

• 21 bracelets
• 32 bracelets
• 28 bracelets
• 49 bracelets

Tags

CCSS.4.OA.A.2

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? 
Step 1: ????
Step 2: Find how many total stripes all the puppies had

• 72 stripes
• 24 stripes
• 18 stripes
• 12 stripes

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

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 in all?
First: Find out how many vegetables in each row
Next: Find out how many vegetables in all

• 36 vegetables
• 64 vegetables 
• 40 vegetables
• 20 vegetables

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Ms. Bonilla bought 6 gallons of ice cream, 4 jars of cherries, and 2 cans of whipped cream for ice cream sundaes for her class. She spent $30 on ice cream and and $54 total on all the ingredients for the sundaes. She spent $12 on 4 jars of cherries and $6 on 2 cans of whipped cream. Cherries and whipped cream cost the same amount. How much did she spend on 1 jar of cherries? How much did she spend on 1 can of whipped cream? 
Step 1: ???
Step 2: Find out how much she spent on 1 jar of cherries.
Step 3: Find out how much she spent on 1 can of whipped cream.

• $12
• $6
• $3
• $2

Tags

CCSS.7.EE.B.3