Patterns
Operations and Equations
Performance Task
Multi-Step Word Problems
100
A number pattern is created by counting backward by eights. To make this pattern, start with the number 66 and subtract 8. What will the next 3 terms be?
58, 50, 42
100
A kitten has 4 toys. A dog has 36 toys. How many times more toys does the dog have than the kitten?
9
100
Five friends are going to a baseball game. They have a choice between driving in cars or taking the train to get to the game.
● Each car can fit 5 people.
● To pay for gas and parking, it costs $20 to take one car.
● It costs $5 per person to take the train.
Will it be cheaper to take a car or a train?
Car = $20
Train = $25
Car is the cheaper choice
100
Rajan and Presley each have some marbles they want to share with their friends. Rajan has 300 marbles, and Presley has 600 marbles. If they equally divide all their marbles between themselves and 4 other friends, how many marbles will they each have?
150
200
A number pattern is created by starting with the number 1000 and dividing by 5. What will the next 3 terms be?
200, 40, 8
200
Scarlett has 6 water bottles in her refrigerator. Koen has twice as many water bottles in the refrigerator as Scarlett. Choose all equations that could represent how many water bottles Koen has in the refrigerator (b).
A. 6 × 2 = b
B. b × 2 = 6
C. b ÷ 2 = 6
D. 6 + 2 = b
A. 6 × 2 = b
C. b ÷ 2 = 6
200
Six friends are going to a baseball game. They have a choice between driving in cars or taking the train to get to the game.
● Each car can fit 5 people.
● To pay for gas and parking, it costs $20 to take one car.
● It costs $5 per person to take the train.
Will it be cheaper to take a car or a train?
2 x Cars = $40
6 x Train = $30
Train is the cheaper choice
200
Mr. Antz, the exterminator, exterminated 250 bugs at each of the 5 houses he has been to this week. If he had exterminated 250 bugs in each of the 3 houses he worked at last week, then what is the total number of bugs he has exterminated in the last two weeks?
1,250 bugs
300
A number pattern is created by adding 7. To make this pattern, start with the number 13 and add 7. What will the second, third, and fourth numbers be?
20, 27, 34
300
Hudson has 4 apples. Aaliyah has 3 times as many apples as Hudson. Choose all equations that could represent how many apples Aaliyah has (A).
A. 4 + 3 = A
B. 4 – 3 = A
C. 4 × 3 = A
D. 4 ÷ 3 = A
E. A ÷ 3 = 4
C. 4 × 3 = A
E. A ÷ 3 = 4
300
Seven friends are going to a baseball game. They have a choice between driving in cars or taking the train to get to the game.
● Each car can fit 5 people.
● To pay for gas and parking, it costs $20 to take one car.
● It costs $5 per person to take the train.
Will it be cheaper to take a car or a train?
2 x Car = $40
7 x Train = $35
Train is the cheaper choice
300
Wyatt ordered 15 small bookcases with 3 shelves each and 13 large bookcases with 5 shelves each. How many total shelves did Wyatt order?
110 Shelves
400
Complete the pattern
38, 32
400
Victoria and Isabella are putting fliers on classroom doors at school. Victoria has put up 45 fliers.
● Isabella has put up h fliers.
● Victoria has put up 3 times as many fliers as Isabella.
Which of the following are true? Select three that apply.
A. The number of fliers Isabella has put up can be represented by the expression 45 ÷ 3.
B. Isabella has put up 48 fliers.
C. The number of fliers Isabella has put up can be represented by the equation 45 = 3 × h.
D. Isabella has put up 15 fliers.
E. The number of fliers Isabella has put up can be represented by the expression 45 × 3.
A. The number of fliers Isabella has put up can be represented by the expression 45 ÷ 3
C. The number of fliers Isabella has put up can be represented by the equation 45 = 3 × h.
D. Isabella has put up 15 fliers
400
Jayda and Miles play a number game. Jayda gives Miles a number and he does three computations.
● He multiplies the answer by 2.
● He adds 7 to the answer.
● Then, he subtracts 2 from the answer.
What number should Jayda give Miles so that the final answer is 37?
16
400
During state testing, the school provides #2 pencils for the students. Below shows how many pencils the school gave out to the students on each testing day.
Monday: 168
Tuesday: 112
Wednesday: 79
Thursday: 84
Friday: 132
If pencils come in packs of 50 pencils, how many packs need to be bought?
12 packs