Mastering Multistep Word Problems

A farmer has 24 apples. He wants to divide them equally among 4 baskets. How many apples will each basket contain?

• 4

• 6

• 8

• 10

Sarah has 5 packs of stickers. Each pack contains 10 stickers. How many stickers does Sarah have in total?

• 15

• 25

• 50

• 100

Tom has 18 marbles. He gives 5 marbles to his friend. How many marbles does Tom have left?

• 13

• 15

• 18

• 23

A book has 120 pages. If you read 30 pages each day, how many days will it take to finish the book?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

A toy costs $15. If you buy 3 toys, how much will you spend in total?

• $30

• $45

• $60

• $75

There are 36 students in a class. If the teacher wants to form groups of 6 students each, how many groups can be formed?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

A baker made 48 cookies. He wants to pack them into boxes with 8 cookies each. How many boxes will he need?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

A gardener planted 27 rows of bushes with 26 bushes per row. How many rose bushes did the gardener plant?

• 53

• 702

• 720

• 722

Jared made sixty dollars mowing lawns over the summer. If he spent thirty-nine dollars buying new mower blades, how many seven dollar games could he buy with the money he had left?

• 21 games

• 3 games

• 7 games

• 99 games

Jacob was selling his old games. He started out with sixty-eight but sold four of them. He packed the rest up putting eight games into each box. How many boxes did he have to use?

• 9 boxes

• 10 boxes

• 7 boxes

• 8 boxes