Multi-Step Problem Solving

For the school bake sale Carol made 30 cupcakes. If she sold 9 of them and then made 28 more, how many cupcakes would she have?

• You will add 30 + 9 and then subtract 28 from the answer
• You will add 30 + 9 and then add 28
• You will subtract 9 from 30 and then add 28
• You will subtract 9 from 30 and then subtract 28

Kaleb had 34 books. If he sold 17 of them and used the money he earned to buy 7 new books, how many books would Kaleb have?

• Add 34 and 17 and then subtract 7
• Subtract 17 from 34 and then add 7
• Subtract 17 and 7 from 34
• Add 17 and 34 and 7

The cafeteria had 25 apples. For lunch they handed out 15 apples to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes 5 apples, how many pies can they make?

• 20
• 10
• 5
• 2

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.B.6

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Jakob was selling his old games. He started out with 14 games but sold 4 of them. He then split his left over games into 5 boxes. How many games can he put in each box?

• 4 games 
• 3 games 
• 5 games 
• 2 games

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.A.4

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

A store had 40 oranges in a bin. If they threw away 25 of the old ones and put 21 new ones in the bin how many would be in the bin?

• 65
• 46
• 61
• 36

Tags

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Melvin has twice as many pencils as Sam. Zachary has four times as many pencils as Sam. If Sam has 3 pencils, how many pencils do the three boys have in all?

• 12
• 6
• 21
• 24

Tags

CCSS.4.OA.A.2

Kevin has $1,498 in his savings account. He has $529 more than Albert. How much money do the have altogether?

• $969
• $2,027
• $3,525
• $2,467

Tags

CCSS.4.OA.A.3

Tom had 114 baseball cards. He kept 10 and shared the rest evenly among his 8 friends. How many baseball cards did each friend get?

• 15
• 13
• 18
• 12

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Zackary wants to put 37 games on 5 shelves. She wants to put the same number of games on each shelf and she will put the remaining games into a box. How many games will be on the shelves and how many will she put into the box?

• 2 games on each shelf and 17 games in the box
• 6 games on each shelf and 17 games in the box
• 3 games on each shelf and 12 games in the box
• 7 games on each shelf and 2 games in the box

A store had 20 coloring books in stock. They ended up putting them on sale and getting rid of 12 of them. They put the ones they still had onto shelves with 2 on each shelf. How many shelves did they use?

• 4 shelves
• 6 shelves
• 7 shelves
• 8 shelves

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

CCSS.3.OA.D.8