Integer Multi-Step Word Problems

Jayden is fishing from a dock. He starts with the bait 2 feet below the surface of the water. He lets the bait drop down 19 feet, then pulls it back up 7 feet. What is the final position of the bait relative to the surface of the water?

Krystina works as an underwater photographer. She starts taking pictures 15 feet below sea level. She then rises 9 feet, then descends 12 feet to take a picture of a coral reef. What is her final position, relative to sea level, when she took the reef picture?

Marguerite earned 45 points on a test. She lost 8 points, earned 53 points, then lost 6 more points. What is Marguerite’s final score on the test?

A seal is swimming in the ocean 5 feet below sea level.

It dives down 12 feet to catch some fish. Then, the seal

swims 8 feet up towards the surface with its catch.

What is the seal’s final elevation relative to sea level?

Esteban took a test in Math. He lost 4 points of each of the 6 questions he got wrong and earned an additional 10 points for answering a bonus question correctly. How many points did Esteban receive or lose overall?

Each pack of pencils contains 8 pencils. Liam bought 3 packs and divided them equally among 6 people. How many pencils did each person get? 

The costume store has 8 racks of costumes with 16 costumes on each rack. Six groups of 3 people enter the store, and each person buys a costume. How many costumes are left in the store?

At Gage's baseball park, the bleachers have 20 rows that each hold 25 people. At one game, 5 rows each have 18 people, 4 rows each have 25 people, and 10 rows each have 9 people. How many more people could fit in the bleachers?

Mr. Anderson had 185 pieces of wood. He sold 25 pieces of wood to his neighbor and stacked the rest of the wood into piles around his house. Each pile of wood contained 40 pieces of wood. Which equation can be used to find p, the number of piles of wood Mr. Anderson made?

In preparation of a new school year, Harriet’s mom goes shopping for supplies. She spends $36 on a new backpack, $12 on new binders, $8 for pencils and paper, and $468 on new clothes. Her budget is $1,000. How much is left in her budget?