Two-step word problems
There are 4 boxes of crayons. Each box has 6 crayons. The teacher gives 5 crayons to another class. How many crayons are left?
Answer: 19
Recess starts at 10:00 AM and ends at 10:30 AM. How long is recess?
30 minutes
Which fraction is equivalent to 3/4?
a) 6/8
b) 4/9
c) 5/7
6/8
Which sport got the most votes?
Soccer
A student reads 8 pages on Monday and 7 pages on Tuesday. The book has 25 pages total. How many pages does the student still need to read?
Answer: 10
A movie starts at 1:00 PM and ends at 2:15 PM. How long is the movie?
1 hour 15 minutes
Which fraction is equivalent to 2/5?
a) 4/10
b) 6/8
c) 5/12
(Answer: 4/10)
How many more students chose baseball than swimming?
8 students
A library has 7 shelves. Each shelf holds 15 books. The librarian adds 20 more books.
How many books are in the library now?
Answer: 125
A road trip starts at 9:00 AM and ends at 11:30 AM. How long is the trip?
2 hours and 30 minutes
Which fraction equals 4/6?
a) 2/3
b) 3/5
c) 4/8
(Answer: 2/3)
How many students chose soccer and baseball together?
32 students
A farmer plants 8 rows of apple trees. Each row has 14 trees. Later, 18 trees are removed.
How many trees remain?
Answer: 94 trees
School starts at 8:20 AM and lunch begins at 11:05 AM. How much time passes before lunch?
2 hours and 45 minutes
Which fraction equals 5/10?
a) 1/2
b) 3/8
c) 2/5
(Answer ½)
How many students were surveyed in total?
50 students
A bakery made 12 trays of muffins with 16 muffins on each tray. They sold 95 muffins.
How many muffins are left?
Answer: 97
Reading time begins at 10:18 AM and ends at 11:02 AM. How long is reading time?
44 minutes
Which fraction is equivalent to 3/5?
a) 6/10
b) 9/20
c) 3/10
(Answer: 6/10)
If 5 more students who originally chose swimming changed their vote to soccer, how many students would then have chosen soccer? How many more students would soccer have than baseball after the change?
New soccer total 23 and Difference between soccer and baseball 9