Multi-Step Problems

What does the 221 R 2 mean for this problem?

• He can fill 221 + 2 pages.

• He can fill 221 pages but he'll have 2 cards left over

• He can fill 1991 pages in 221 albums.

He can fill 221 pages, but he'll also have 2 cards left over. So what is the real answer?

• He needs 222 pages because he needs an extra page for his 2 extra cards.

• He needs 221 pages only because he can give his 2 extra cards away.

• He needs 223 pages because he needs 2 extra pages for his 2 extra cards.

Alice has 57 mint condition action figures. She has glass cases to display them, and she can fit ten figures in a case. How many cases will she need for all of her figures

• 9 cases

• 6 cases

• 570 cases

• 16 cases

• Felicia had 8 stickers. She got 2 more stickers. How many stickers does she have now?

• Felicia had 2 packs of stickers. Each pack had 2 stickers. How many stickers does Felicia have?

• Felicia had 8 stickers. She gave 2 stickers away. How many stickers does she have now?

• Shawn and Dawn donated $62 to charity together. Shawn donated $26. How much did Dawn donate?

• Shawn donated $62 to charity. Dawn donated $26 to charity. How much did they donate together?

• Shawn and Dawn donated to 26 charities. Each charity received $62. How much money did they donate in all?

• Joe had 3 boxes of books. Each box contained 45 books. How many books did Joe have?

• Joe had 3 boxes of books. He sold 45 books. How many books did Joe have left?

• Joe had 45 books. He wanted to pack them equally into 3 boxes. How many went in each box?

• Julia has some pencils. One pack has 19 pencils, and another pack has 5 pencils. How many pencils does Julia have?

• Julia has 19 pencils. She gave 5 away. How many pencils does she have left?

• Julia has 19 pencils. She kept 5 and gave the rest equally to her two BFFs. How many pencils did each BFF receive?

• Jessica has 32 cookies. She put them evenly in 3 bags. Then she ate 4 cookies. How many cookies were left?

• Jessica has three bags of cookies. Each bag has 32 cookies. She ate 4 cookies. How many cookies were left?

• Jessica has three bags of cookies. Each bag has 32 cookies. She got 4 more cookies. How many cookies does she have now?

• A store sells purses. They have 5 boxes with 17 purses in each box, and 2 extra purses. How many purses do they have to sell?

• A store has 17 purses to sell. They put 2 aside for online orders. They put the rest equally on 5 shelves. How many purses went on each shelf?

• A store has 17 purses to sell. Then they got 2 more purses to sell. They put the purses equally on 5 shelves. How many purses went on each shelf?

Juan has 440 blocks. Kristina has 280 more blocks than Juan has. The strip diagrams show how to find how many blocks they have all together.

What does 720 in the strip diagram represent?

• How many blocks Kristina has?

• How many blocks Juan has

• How many blocks they have all together

• How many more blocks Jonas has