📝 MULTI-STEP WORD PROBLEMS

Grade 5 · State Test Prep · Common Core 5.OA, 5.NF, 5.MD

Name: _______________________

Date: ________________________

Score: _______ / 8

🧠 Problem-Solving Steps

1Read & underline key info
2What are you finding?
3Which steps? In what order?
4Solve & check: does it make sense?
1

A school cafeteria ordered 24 boxes of apples. Each box holds 36 apples. They used 415 apples for a school event. How many apples are left?

Show your work (step by step):

Answer: _____________ apples    (STAAR-style: show both steps)

2

Maya earns $12.50 per hour babysitting. She worked 4 hours on Saturday and 2.5 hours on Sunday. She wants to buy a jacket that costs $68. How much more money does she still need?

Show your work:

Answer: $ _____________

3

A rectangular garden is 12.5 m long and 8 m wide. A path 1.5 m wide runs all the way around the outside of the garden. What is the total area of the path?

Draw a diagram + show your work:

Answer: _____________ m²

4

A recipe uses ¾ cup of sugar for one batch of cookies. Tom makes 3½ batches. He has 3 cups of sugar. Does he have enough? How much does he have left over (or how much more does he need)?

Show your work using fractions:

Enough? Yes / No    Amount left over / needed: _____________

★

Challenge: A tank holds 280 liters. It is currently ⅖ full. Water flows in at 15 liters per minute. How many minutes until the tank is ¾ full?

Show all steps:

Answer: _____________ minutes

Answer Key (for teacher):

1: 24×36=864; 864-415=449 apples | 2: (4+2.5)×12.50=$81.25; 81.25-68=$13.25 left

3: Outer=(12.5+3)×(8+3)=170.5; Inner=100; Path=70.5 m² | 4: ¾×3.5=2⅝; 3-2⅝=⅜ cup left over

★: ⅖×280=112; ¾×280=210; 210-112=98L needed; 98÷15≈6.5 minutes

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