1 And 2 Step Word Problems All Operations

Carol is the treasurer of her bird-watching club. The club wants to order shirts for each of the 18 members. If each shirt costs $21, what is the cost for the members’ shirts?

• $39

• $378

• $380

• $540

2. A tower on the Great Wall of China is 9,660 meters from a fort. The tower is 28,980 meters from a castle. How many more meters is the tower from the castle than the tower is from the fort?

• 19,320 meters

• 38,640 meters

• 12,540 meters

• 21,320 meters

The attendance at the theater during June was 37,135. In July, 3,353 more people attended the theater. How many people attended the theater in July?

• 40,488

• 33,782

• 34,482

• 4,685

A restaurant buys 32 boxes of 21 packets of mustard each and 26 boxes of 35 packets of ketchup each. How many packets of mustard and ketchup does the restaurant buy?

• 304 packets

• 238 packets

• 1,352 packets

• 1,582 packets

6. A company made 1,215 yards of copper wire. They want to wrap the same amount of wire on each of three spools. How many yards of wire will be on each spool?

• 45 yards

• 405 yards

• 414 yards

• 43 yards

Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park had 418,911 visitors in 2008. The park had 25,742 more visitors in 2009 than in 2008. How many people visited the park in 2008 and 2009 combined?

• 862,564

• 852,564

• 863,564

• 963,564

8. Pam’s school is opening a new school library. She is packing books to help move. She can fit 8 books in each box. The school has 1,088 books. How many boxes does she need?

Tissue paper comes in packages of 6 sheets. Ms. Rodriguez buys 2,525 packages of tissue paper. How many sheets of tissue paper does she buy?

• 2,519

• 2,531

• 420

• 15,150

3. A vendor at the balloon festival sold 10,450 shirts the first year and 11,232 shirts the following year. How many more shirts were sold in the second year than in the first year?

Billy bought 3.5 pieces of wood to build a bird feeder. Each piece of wood cost $1.50. How much did Billy spend on wood for his bird feeder?

WHICH OPERATION WOULD YOU USE TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM?

• Division

• Multiplication

• Subtraction

• Addition