5th Grade Single Step Word Problems
Jim had 4/5 of a pizza. He ate 1/3 of it. How much pizza did he eat?
What is 4/15 of the pizza
Gabe has a big spelling test coming up. He must learn 35 words. On Monday he learned 12 words. On Tuesday he learned 9 words. How many more words must he learn?
What is 14 more words
Johnny was making cookies. He needed to make 3 dozen cookies. If the recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar for each batch and each batch makes 6 monster cookies. How many cups of sugar will he need in all?
What is 6 cups of sugar
Tauer loved model cars. He received 12 for his birthday last year, 15 for his birthday this year, and he bought 6 model cars with his own money. He gave 1 car to his dad for Father's Day and 2 to his brother. How many model cars does he have now?
What is 30 model cars
Blake has a baseball hitting average of 0.259. How much will he have to raise it to get to a 0.300 average?
What is 0.041?
Trevor collected 16 pieces of wood for his fort. Mrs. Olsen gave him 7 pieces. Mr. Smith gave him 5 pieces. He got the rest from his garage. How many pieces did he get from his garage?
What is 4 pieces
Dawn makes homemade soap. She needs 2 teaspoons of essential oil per batch. She is making a total of 96 soaps for the homeless shelter. How much essential oil does she need if each batch makes 6 soaps?
What is 32 teaspoons of essential oil
Caitlyn is selling tickets for the local carnival. She started with 35 tickets. Now she has 4 tickets. If each ticket cost $4, how much money did she collect?
What is $124
Addie wants to collect 36 newspapers for the recycling drive. She found 12 newspapers at her house. She collected 10 newspapers from neighbors. How many more newspapers does she need to reach her goal?
What is 14 newspapers
Peter has a large Yu-Gi-Oh card collection. He has them in boxes, but wants to put them in sheets. If each sheet can hold 9 cards, how many sheets will he need if he has 340 cards and wants 1/2 of them in sheets?
What is 19 sheets to hold all 170 cards
Steve races on inline skates. He has raced in 14 marathons, which are 26.21 miles long each. How many miles did he race in all?
What is 366.94 miles
Austin had 30 cups of lemonade at his stand when he started. At 8:30, Austin sold 9 cups of lemonade, and at 9:00 he sold 15 cups. How many cups does he have now?
What is 6 cups
Caroline and Harrison want to go to a UW football game. They spend $7.98 each on lunch, the tickets cost $47.85 each. Harrison bought a program for $12.50, while Caroline bought a sweatshirt for $36. How much money did they spend in all?
What is $160.16
Destiny started with 23 1/2 candy bars in her bag. She shared them evenly with 2 other friends and herself. How many candy bars did each person get?
What is 7 and 5/6 candy bars each
You want to find the perfect birthday card for your uncle Marv. There are 3,569 different cards from which to choose. 794 of the cards are not for birthdays. 1,465 of the cards are for people other than uncles. How many cards are left from which you can choose?
What is 1,310 cards
Joshua is making peach cobbler. Each recipe needs 3 cups of fresh peaches. If he is making 12 batches of the recipe and he has 60 peaches, with 2 peaches being able to be cut into 1 cups of peaches, does Joshua have enough peaches?
What is no, he needs 36 cups of peaches and he only has 30 cups.
Mark had $5.00 to spend. He wanted to buy baseball cards that cost $3.75 and bubble gum that cost $0.75. Did he have enough money to buy both, if so how much change should he get?
What is yes and $0.50