Multi-Step Real World Problems

1. Lois made a dish with

cups of pasta. One serving of the pasta is 0.2 cups. How many
servings of pasta were in the dish Lois made?
A.
B.
C.
D.

2.
A rectangular cake has a length of
pieces of cake with side lengths of

inches and a width of

inches. How many whole, square

inches can be cut from the cake?

A. 25
B. 24
C. 22
D. 23

3. Britney is buying a shirt and a hat at the mall. The shirt costs $32.51, and the hat costs $18.01.
If Britney gives the sales clerk $100.00, how much change should she receive? (Ignore sales tax.)
A. $49.48
B. $46.38
C. $50.52
D. $59.23

4.
Lisa is on a trip of 2,205 miles. She has already traveled 56 miles. She has 7 days left in her trip.
How many miles does she need to travel each day to complete the trip?
A. 1,842
B. 363

C. 2,149
D. 307

5. Colby is making a home video consisting of a 5-minute introduction followed by several short
skits. Each skit is 8 minutes long. If Colby's video is 141 minutes long, how many skits are in his
video?
A. 85
B. 18
C. 17
D. 22

6. Every day, Jason runs for 32 minutes and lifts weights for 43 minutes. How many minutes will
Jason spend working out in 7 days?
A. 77
B. 224
C. 525
D. 301

7.
A rectangular cake has a length of

inches and a width of

square pieces of cake with side lengths of

inches. How many whole,

inches can be cut from the cake?

A. 35
B. 37
C. 36
D. 38

8. The temperature outside changed from 64F to 43F over a period of seven days. If the
temperature changed by the same amount each day, what was the daily temperature change?
A. -21F
B. 3F
C. -3F

D. 21F

9. Jenna earns $10.75 per hour working at the mall. If Jenna worked
much did she earn before taxes were taken out?

hours last week, how

A. $309.60
B. $316.80
C. $311.75
D. $301.00

10. Mike put 378 baseballs into 9 trash bins. He put the same number of baseballs in each bin.
He took 5 trash bins of baseballs to the baseball field. How many baseballs did Mike take?
A. 1,760
B. 168
C. 217
D. 210

11. Angie read 3 books in 4 days, and each book contained 304 pages. If Angie read the same
number of pages each day, how many pages did she read per day?
A. 912
B. 83
C. 228
D. 304

12. John has 14 boxes of apples. Each box holds 16 apples. If 8 of the boxes are full, and 6 of the
boxes are half full, how many apples does John have?
A. 46
B. 112
C. 176
D. 224

13. NeNe tripled a cookie recipe for a party. The original recipe called for 5.25 cups of sugar.
NeNe tripled the sugar amount and poured it into a mixing bowl. The mixing bowl got knocked
over and 4.46 cups of sugar spilled. How many cups of sugar were left in the mixing bowl?
A. 15.75
B. 0.79
C. 11.29
D. 13.38

14. Kenneth drove 197.65 miles in

hours. What was his average speed?

A. 59 mph
B. 53 mph
C. 66 mph
D. 61 mph

15. Mandana is ordering new tile for her kitchen floor. The area of the floor is 111.7 square feet,
and she wants to order between 15% and 20% extra of the materials. Which of the following is a
reasonable amount of tile for Mandana to order?
A. 135 square feet
B. 125 square feet
C. 127 square feet
D. 132 square feet

16. Carl, Gilda, Conroy, and Kyla are the four candidates in a school election. Carl received of
the votes, Gilda received 5% of the votes, and Conroy received of the votes. If Kyla received all
of the remaining votes, what percentage of the votes did she receive?
A. 30%
B. 5%
C. 50%
D. 35%

17. The table shows the amount of flour needed for six cookie recipes.

What is the total amount of flour needed for all six cookie recipes?
A. 16.25 cups
B. 15 cups
C. 15.5 cups
D. 14.5 cups

18. Peter's mom gave him $25.00 on Monday morning to use on lunches. At his school, the
school lunch costs $1.25, which he bought Monday through Thursday. On Friday, he decided to
buy 4 slices of pizza instead of buying the school lunch. If the pizza costs $1.40 per slice, then
how much of the money is left at the end of the school week?
A. $19.70
B. $14.40
C. $15.65
D. $15.80

19. Mrs. Jones decided to buy some pencils for her class. She bought 3 packages of pencils, and
each package contained 44 pencils. There are 22 students in her class and she divided up the
pencils so that each student had the same amount of pencils. If there were no pencils left over,
how many pencils did each student get?
A. 2
B. 66
C. 6
D. 25

20.
Workers Inc. just bought 10 boxes of pens to put in their storage room for employees to use as
needed. Each box contains 40 pens. If each of the 36 employees working for Workers Inc. takes
4 pens when they are first brought into the office, how many pens will be left in the storage
room?
A. 364
B. 200
C. 256
D. 396

21. Wesley input his data from an experiment, shown in the table below, into a spreadsheet.

Density is equal to mass divided by volume. What is the density of sample 3? Round to the
nearest hundredth, if necessary.
A.
B.
C.
D.

22. Pasha works as a food scientist. He designed a recipe for crackers that are 60% wheat flour
by weight. He made a test batch of the crackers from
weight of wheat flour did Pasha use in the test batch?

total pounds of ingredients. What

A.
B.
C.
D.

23.
A rectangular cake has a length of
pieces of cake with side lengths of
A. 22
B. 25

inches and a width of inches. How many whole, square

inches can be cut from the cake?

C. 24
D. 23

24.
Lance baked a pie. Justin ate of the pie, and Joey ate of the pie. How much of the pie is left?
A.
B.
C.
D.

25. Antonia bought a set of dishes, a towel, and a candle at a housewares store. The set of dishes
cost $35.43, the towel cost $21.57, and the candle cost $9.74 before any coupons or discounts.
She used a $0.50-off coupon on the candle, a $2.75-off coupon on the towel, and the set of dishes
was on sale for 10% off the regular price. Which of the following best describes the amounts that
Antonia saved?
A. She saved the greatest percentage on the candle.
B. She saved the greatest percentage on the towel.
C. She saved the same percentage on the towel and the set of dishes.
D. She saved the greatest percentage on the set of dishes.

26. Joey is putting all of his trophies onto 7 shelves. If he places 7 trophies on each shelf but still
has 3 trophies left over, how many trophies does he have?
A. 28
B. 17
C. 49

D. 52

27. The table shows the estimated driving time between the cities Kendall will visit on his
vacation.

What is the total estimated driving time between these cities?

A. 56.35 hours
B. 55.35 hours
C. 56.75 hours
D. 55.75 hours

28. Robert delivers papers every morning. On Sundays he has to deliver 57 papers and on each
of the other days he only has to deliver 38 papers. How many papers does Robert deliver each
week?
A. 285
B. 323
C. 399
D. 361

29. Jimmy is writing a paper for one of his classes. The paper has to be 3,000 words long, and so
far he has written 840 words. If he only has 6 more days to write his paper and wants to write the
same number of words each day, then how many words must he write per day to finish the
paper?
A. 360
B. 396
C. 860
D. 2,160

30. Rita earns $16.00 per hour. If she gets a 6% raise, what will be her new hourly wage?
A. $16.96
B. $15.04
C. $16.06

D. $22.00

31. Rita earns $20.00 per hour. If she gets a 5% raise, what will be her new hourly wage?
A. $20.05
B. $25.00
C. $19.00
D. $21.00

32. Rita earns $19.00 per hour. If she gets a 3% raise, what will be her new hourly wage?
A. $19.03
B. $19.57
C. $18.43
D. $22.00

33. For a scavenger hunt, Jim's mom distributed a bag of 357 jelly beans evenly into 21 plastic
containers and hid them around the yard. If, after the hunt, Jim has a total of 153 jelly beans, then
how many of the plastic containers did he find?
A. 204
B. 9
C. 7
D. 189

34. NeNe tripled a cookie recipe for a party. The original recipe called for 4.25 cups of sugar.
NeNe tripled the sugar amount and poured it into a mixing bowl. The mixing bowl got knocked
over and 3.46 cups of sugar spilled. How many cups of sugar were left in the mixing bowl?
A. 10.38
B. 9.29
C. 12.75
D. 0.79

35. Avery had $25.27 in her wallet. If she bought lunch with
much money did she have in her wallet after lunch?
A. $17.17
B. $17.27
C. $16.02
D. $17.02

dollars from her wallet, how