2 step word problems
A class has 4 tables. Each table has 5 students.
Each student gets 2 pencils.
How many pencils are needed in total?
Step 1: 4 × 5 = 20 students
Step 2: 20 × 2 = 40 pencils
40 pencils
There are 5 boxes of pencils. Each box has 6 pencils.
The teacher gives 4 pencils to each student.
How many students get pencils?
Step 1: 5 × 6 = 30
Step 2: 30 ÷ 4 = 7 R 2
Answer: 7 students (you can’t give a student part of a full set)
A rectangle is 5 units long and 3 units wide.
P = 16 units
A = 15 square units
2/3 x 1/4=
2/12
3/5 - 1/5=
2/5
A baker made 6 trays of cookies. Each tray has 8 cookies.
He gave away 10 cookies.
How many cookies are left?
Step 1: 6 × 8 = 48
Step 2: 48 − 10 = 38 cookies
A farmer has 6 baskets of apples. Each basket has 7 apples.
He packs apples into bags of 5 apples each.
How many apples are left over?
Step 1: 6 × 7 = 42
Step 2: 42 ÷ 5 = 8 R 2
Answer: 2 apples left over
A square has a side length of 6 units.
P = 24 units
A = 36 square units
3/4 of 2/8=
6/32
3/4 + 3/4=
6/4= 1 2/4
A store has 5 boxes of markers. Each box has 12 markers.
They pack the markers into bags with 6 markers in each bag.
How many bags can they make?
Step 1: 5 × 12 = 60
Step 2: 60 ÷ 6 = 10 bags
10 bags
A coach has 4 boxes of tennis balls. Each box has 9 balls.
He puts 5 balls in each bag.
How many bags does he need so all balls can be in a bag?
Step 1: 4 × 9 = 36
Step 2: 36 ÷ 5 = 7 R 1
Answer: 8 bags (that extra ball demands its own bag)
A garden is 9 feet long and 4 feet wide.
12 of 2/3=
8
2/4 + 5/8=
4/8 +5/8= 9/8
9/8= 1 1/8
A school bought 9 packs of notebooks. Each pack has 8 notebooks. They gave 3 notebooks to each student.
How many students can get notebooks?
Step 1: 9 × 8 = 72 notebooks
Step 2: 72 ÷ 3 = 24 students
24 students
There are 15 packs of stickers. Each pack has 9 stickers.
Each student gets 4 stickers.
How many students get stickers?
Step 1: 15 × 9 =. 135
Step 2: 135 ÷ 4 = 33 R 3
Answer: 33 students
A garden has an area of 48 square feet.
It is 6 feet wide.
What is the length of the garden?
6 x 8=48
the length is 8 feet
3/4 of 13=
39/4=. 9 3/4
1 2/3
- 5/6
____________
1 4/6 -> 10/6
- 5/6 -> - 5/6
_________. ____________
5/6
A teacher has 7 boxes of markers. Each box has 8 markers.
She wants to give 5 markers to each student.
How many students can get markers?
56 ÷ 5 = 11 R 1
11 markers
400 (Mixed thinking)
A library has 8 shelves. Each shelf holds 11 books.
They pack the books into boxes that hold 6 books each.
How many full boxes can they make?
Step 1: 8 × 11 = 88
Step 2: 88 ÷ 6 = 14 R 4
Answer: 14 boxes
A rectangle has a perimeter of 20 units.
One side is 6 units.
6 + 6= 12
20-12=8
8/2= 4
length= 4
3/5 of 18
54/5= 10 4/5
3 1/3
- 1 1/2
__________
3 2/6. -> 2 8/6
- 1 3/6. -> - 1 3/6
________. ________
1 5/6