Two Step Story Problems
Mrs. Klusman
Two Step Story Problems
Two Step Story Problems
Simplifying or Solve
100

Mary had 26 apples. She used 8 to make applesauce. She used the rest to make pies. She put 6 apples in each pie. How many pies did Kate make?


WHAT IS THE LABEL?


What is 0 Pies?

100

What college did Mrs. Klusman attend?

What is Butler University?

100

Matt has 30 baseball cards. Tony has 6 more cards than Tony. Tony displays his cards in 4 equal rows. How many are in each row?


WHAT IS THE LABEL?

What is 9 cards per row? 

100

Troy saves money for a bike that costs $126. He saves $58 one month and $43 the next month. How much more money does Troy need to buy the bike?

What is the LABEL?

What is 25 dollars. 

100

Evaluate the following:

3(2-8) + 52

What is 7?

200

Write an equation and solve:

Mary had 26 apples. She used 8 to make applesauce. She used the rest to make pies. She put 6 apples in each pie. How many pies did Kate make?

(26-8) / 6 = p

What is 3 pies? 

200

The number of children Mrs. Klusman has.

What is 3?

200

Write the equation and solve:

Matt has 30 baseball cards. Matt has 2 more cards than Tony. Tony displays his cards in 4 equal rows. How many are in each row?

(30-2) / 4 = c

What is 7 cards? 

200

The school bought 10 boxes of pencils for 5 teachers to share.  If each box has 144 pencils, how many pencils does each teacher get?

288 pencils.

200

Combine like terms:

4(x - 6) - 6x + 2

-2x -22

300

Write the equation and solve:

Max downloads 50 pictures on his computer. Then he removes 10 pictures. He puts the rest in 4 folders in his computer, with an equal number in each folder. 


How many pictures are in each folder?

(50-10) / 4 = p

What is 10 pictures. 

300

The state Mrs. Klusman was born in.

What is Indiana? 

300

Write an equation and solve.

Ben buys a video game that costs $32. He also buys a movie that cost $10 more than the video game. 

 How much does Ben spend on the video game and the movie?


What is (32+10) + 32 = m

What is $74. 


300

Makenna has 452 rocks in her collection. Her mom gives her 38 more rocks. She then gives some rocks to her friend. Makenna now has 405 rocks. 

How many rocks does she give to her friend?

(452 + 38) - 405 = r

What is 9 rocks? 

300

Solve:

2(2x + 1) = 26

What is x = 6

400

Mrs. Wiersma is baking pies and cakes for a fundraiser. She bought 32 apples, 21 peaches, and a number of bananas at the farmer's market. She bought 74 pieces of fruit. How many bananas did she buy?

Choose the equation that can be used to solve the problem:

(32 + 21) + b = 74

(74-b)+32 = 21

(32 + 21) x b = 74 

What is (32 + 21) + b = 74.

400

What sport did Mrs. Klusman play in college?

What is volleyball

400

Make an equation and solve:

Afton puts 37 books on a shelf. She puts an equal number of books on 7 rows and puts 2 books on the last row. How many books does she put in each of the 7 equal rows?


What is (7xb) + 2 = 37.

What is 5 books? 

400

Write an equation and solve:

Landon picks 150 grapes. He picks 60 red grapes and the rest are green. He sells 40 green grapes. How many green grapes does he have now?


(150-60) - 40 = g

What is 50 green grapes. 

400

Solve:

4x - 34 = 2(x + 8)

What is x = 25