4th Grade Multistep Word Problems (2 Steps)

Use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve each problem. Mrs. Smith packs 136 apples into bags. Each bag has 4 apples. How many bags of apples does Mrs. Smith have?

Mrs. Smith had 255 apples that she places in bags of 5 apples per bags. Mrs. Smith sells all the bags of apples. Each bag costs $3. How much money does Mrs. Smith earn?

A school buys 8 boxes of pencils. There are 72 pencils in each box. How many pencils are there altogether?

A school buys a case of pencils. A case has 72 boxes. Each box has 12 pencils. The school gives 5 pencils to each student. How many students receive exactly 5 pencils?

Carla starts to pack 858 toy trains into boxes. She puts 6 toy trains in each box. At the end of the day, she has 162 toy trains left. How many boxes of toy trains did she pack?

A librarian packs books equally into 8 crates. The librarian has 491 nonfiction books and 473 fiction books. How many books are in each crate? How many books are left over?

Some students at a school have a car wash. Their goal is to make $225. They get $5 for each motorcycle they wash. They get $8 for each car they wash. They wash 7 motorcycles and some cars. What is the fewest number of cars the students can wash to make their goal?