Two Step Problems
Martin has 11 cages in his bird store. Each cage can hold 7 birds. The store has 21 birds in its cages. What is the greatest number of birds Martin can add to his cages?
56
There are 7 apples in each of 8 bags
What is the total number of apples in all 8 bags?
56
Stacy used 21 feet of ribbon to make bows. She used 3 feet of ribbon for each bow.
Write an equation to be used to find the number of bows Stacy made with this ribbon?
21 divided by 3 equals 7
Daria has 42 baseball gloves in her store.
She will put these gloves on 7 shelves. She will put the same number of gloves on each shelf. How many gloves will Daria put on each shelf ? Why ?
6, because 42 divided by 7 equals 6
A group people bought tickets for a roller coaster ride.
The group spent $4 for each ticket.
Altogether the group spent $48 on tickets.
Each person in the group got 2 tickets.
6
Oates Elementary set up chairs for the fifth grade graduation. Each row has 7 chairs.
How many chairs are in 9 rows ?
63
Janet has 2 new games.
Each game has 3 packs of cards.
Each pack has 10 cards.
Create a model that can be used to find the total number of cards Janet has for these 2 games.
2 games. 3 packs of cards with 10 in each pack.
There are a total of 36 bicycles in 6 rows at a bicycle shop. There are the same number of bicycles in each row. What equation can be used to find the number of bicycles in each row?
36 divided by 6 equals 6 or 6 x 6= 36
Alex bought 4 packages of pink golf balls and 2 packages of orange golf balls. There were 12 golf balls in each package. How many golf balls did Alex buy?
72
Oliver’s mom bought 12 boxes of juice for the soccer team. Each box contained six juices.
How many juices did Oliver’s mom buy?
72
What number goes in the blank to make the equation true?
__ x 7= 98
14
Gina has 42 mushrooms to put into 6 salads. She wants to put the same number of mushrooms in each salad.
Create Strip Diagram to show how to find the number of mushrooms that Gina should put in each salad.
6x7=42
Miriam had 63 flowers and 9 vases.
She threw away 9 flowers that had broken stems.
She put an equal number of all the flowers she had left into each vase.
What is the greatest number of flowers Miriam put into each vase?
6
The Sweet Candy Shop sold 14 rock candies on Saturday. The same candy shop sold the same amount for 7 days.
How many did they sell in all ?
98
Cassandra used all the balloons in 11 packages to decorate for a party.
There were 6 balloons in each package.
Half of the balloons in each package were red.
What equation can be used to find the total number of red balloons she used?
11 times 6 divided by 2 equals 33
Aaron will place 99 towels on a shelf. He will make 9 equal stacks.
How many towels will be in each stack?
11
Hector played a game 14 times. Each time he played, he threw 4 red balls and 3 green balls at a target.
What was the total number of balls Hector threw at the target ?
98
There are 24 chocolate candies in a bag.
How many candies would be in four bags?
96
An artist painted 20 skateboards on Saturday. She painted 4 flowers on each skateboard.
What equation can be used to find the total amount of flowers the artist painted on these skateboards?
20 times 4 equals 80
Ms. Lewis has 72 index cards. She will arrange the cards in 6 equal stacks.
How many index cards will be in each stack?
12